Plate LV. 



PORZANA ALBIGULARIS. 



(WHITE-THEOATED CRAKE). 



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Corethrura alhigularis 

 JPorzana alhigularis 



Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 302. 

 Scl. and Salv. P.Z.S. 1864, p. 372. 

 Scl. and Salv. P.Z.S. 1867, p. 280. 



Supra fusca, lateribus capitis et cervice postica castaneis : subtus alba, pectore castaneo perfuso : hypochondriis, 

 yentris lateribus et crisso albo nigroque transfasciatis : rostro olivaceo, pedibus fuscis: long, tota 5'5, alse 2'9, caudse 

 1*1, tarsi 1*1, rostri a rictu # 9. 



Hah. in Isthm. Panama (McLeannari) : Costa Eica (Arce) : Mosquitia (Wickham). 



This little Crake is a northern representative of the foregoing species, but is distinguishable 

 by well marked characters. The chestnut neck and breast, the regularly barred crissum and the 

 smaller size render it easily recognizable when compared with its southern ally. 



The White-throated Crake is one of Mr. McLeannan's numerous discoveries on the Isthmus 

 of Panama, and was first described by Mr. Lawrence in 1861 from specimens transmitted to him 

 by that well-known collector. The bird would appear to be not uncommon in this locality, 

 Mr. McLeannan having likewise supplied the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman with 

 several examples of it, from one of which our illustration has been prepared. In these figures 

 it will be noticed that the wings are wholly unspotted, but it should be stated .that one of the 

 Panama skins shews black and white bars on the greater and lesser wing coverts, and that a 

 second has some traces of the same character. These markings would, however, probably 

 disappear in the adult bird. 



Northwards of Panama we have traced the occurrence of this Crake into Costa Pica, 

 whence a single specimen, obtained at Barranca on the gulf of Nicoya, has been transmitted 

 to us by Arce, and up the eastern coast of Central America as far as the Blewfields river, 

 where Mr. Henry Wickham met with it during his excursion into the Mosquito territory. 



July, 1868. 



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