332 BALLIDiB. 



eggs are rather lengthened in form, of a pale pinky-white, dotted 

 all over with reddish-chestnut, the spots being thinly dispersed, 

 and some of them appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell 

 giving them a darker tint, two inches and one-eighth long, one 

 inch and five-eighths broad." (Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust, Vol. 

 ii., p. 338.) 



Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, f Ramsay.) 



Genus POKZANA, Vieillot. 



PORZANA PALUSTRIS, Gmdd. 

 Little "Water Crake. 

 Gould, Randbk. Bds. Aust , Vol. ii., sp. 574, p. 340. 



" The nest is an irregular loose structure of dry grass and weeds 

 &c., rather scanty, placed on the ground among the grass and 

 reeds in the vicinity of water, they are plentiful»on the margins 

 of lagoons in the neighbourhood of Lake George ; I also found 

 them breeding during October to January on the Clarence River 

 near Grafton ; the eggs are three in number of a uniform dark 

 olive brown, average length 1'07 x 0'81 inch. (Mus. Bobr.)" 

 Jtamsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. vii., p. 56.) 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 

 Tasmania, West and South- West Australia. {Ramsay.) 



Genus EEYTHRA, Eeichenbach. 



ERYTHRA QUADRISTRIGATA, Horsfield. 

 White-eyebrowed Water Crake. 

 GouU, Handhk. Bds. Aust, Vol. ii., sp. 576, p. 343. 1SL "?. 



This bird is found in the swamps and thickets of Mangroves 

 that skirt the mouths of the rivers of Northern Queensland. A 

 single egg of this species in the Dobroyde Collection, taken by 

 Mr. B. Spalding from the oviduct of a bird, while engaged on a 



