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men collected by Mr. Brown at Palomina, at an altitude of S,ooo feet 

 in the Sierra Nevada, May 22, 1898. For some years the type was 

 unique, but more recently the species has been traced to western Colom- 

 bia and southward into Ecuador. It was noted by the junior author 

 on several occasions on the Heights of Chirua, but unfortunately none 

 were secured. 



82. Porzana Carolina (Linnaeus). 

 Two specimens : Fundacion. 



The Sora Rail is a winter resident in this section. It was found in 

 the marsh at Fundac^ion from October 12 to 14, 1915, two birds being 

 taken and about four more seen. The specimens show fresh feathers 

 coming in on the throat and breast. 



83. Creciscus albigularis (Lawrence). 



Poreafia albigularis Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 157 

 (Pueblo Viejo), 172 (Palomina). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 

 1900, 125 (Bangs' references). 



Additional records : La Concepcion (Brown). 



Three specimens : Mamatoco and Fundacion. 



This little rail is found wherever there are marshy grass-lands, from 

 near sea-level up to (according to Mr. Brown) 5,000 feet. It was 

 common in the marsh at Fundacion, but hard to secure. It is difficult 

 to say just where Mr. Brown secured his Pueblo Viejo specimen, but 

 probably it was in the lower parts of the savannas. 



84. lonornis martinicus (Linnaeus). 



Eight specimens : Mamatoco, Fundacion, and Trojas de Cataca. 



A few Purple Gallinules live in a small marsh near Mamatoco, where 

 specimens were secured both by Mr. Smith's collectors and by the 

 writer. At Trojas de Cataca they were common along the lower 

 course of the river, haunting the tall grass and aquatic plants lining 

 both banks. They were most numerous, however, in the marshes at 

 Fundacion, where, on October 10, 1915, two nests were found. One 

 contained four eggs and one chick, the other three eggs and two 

 chicks. Upon visiting the nests two days laters all the eggs had 

 hatched and the chicks had disappeared. The nests were merely bulky 

 masses of grass placed in a cluster of wild plantain and Para-grass, 

 about three feet above the water. 



