Plate LVI. 



PORZANA LEUCOPYRRHA 



(RED AM) WHITE CRAKE). 



i: 



Ypecaha pardo acanelado y hlanco 

 Ballus leucopyrrhus . 



Corethrura leucopyrrha 



Corethrura hypoleucos 

 Laterirallus hypoleucus 



Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 228, No. 375. 



Vieill, R D. xxviii. p. 550, et Enc. Meth. p. 1064. 



v. Schreiber, Isis, 1823, p. 1063. 



Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 24. 



Gray, Gen. iii. p. 595. 



Burm. La-Plata-Beise ii. p. 505. 



Licht. in Mus. Berol. : Nomencl. p. 96. 



Bp. C. E. xliii. p. 599. 



Puscescenti-olivacea, capite rufescente, alis extus et cauda cum dorso postico obscurioribus : subtus alba ; lateribus 

 capitis cervicis et pectoris castaneis, bypocbondriis albo nigroque transfasciatis : crisso medio nigro, lateraliter albo : 

 rostro olivaceo, pedibus flavidis : long, tota 675, alas 3'1, caudse 19, tarsi 1*3, rostri a rictu 0*8. 



Sal. in Paraguaya (Azara) : rep. Argentina, Tucuman (Burm.) : Brasil. merid. (Mus. Berol). 



This species of Crake, though closely allied to P. melanophcea, was recognized by its 

 discoverer Azara as distinct, and described under a separate name in his well-known work on 

 the birds of Paraguay. Burmeister, almost the only other naturalist who has met with it, 

 obtained specimens in the Province of Tucuman in the Argentine Kepublic, where, he tells us, it 

 is usually seen in the early morning on the banks of rivers in marshy spots. Natterer also 

 collected specimens of this bird somewhere in Southern Brazil, as has been recorded in the 

 " Isis" for 1823, but his notes on this portion of his collection are not yet published, so that we 

 cannot tell the exact locality. It would appear, however, from Lichtenstein's " Nomenclator" 

 that this Eail occurs in Minas Geraes, whence a single example has been transmitted to the Berlin 

 Museum. In form and general appearance P. leucopyrrha most nearly resembles P. melanophaa, 

 but is readily distinguishable by its chestnut head and neck, by its black crissum, margined on 

 each side with white, and by the generally purer and more extended white of the under surface. 



Our figure of this bird is from a specimen in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, 

 recently purchased from M. Verreaux, and stated to have been received from the Brazilian 

 Province of Eio Grande. 



There are four American Crakes, which have the back nearly uniformly coloured and the 

 flanks barred, and constitute the section Laterirallus of Prince Bonaparte: namely 



1. Pokzana hatjxwelli, PI. LIII, from the Upper Amazon. 



2. Porzana MELANOPHiEA, PL LIV, from 8. E. Brasil, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Venezuela. 



3. Porzana alrigularis, PI. LY, from Panama, Costa Eica, and Mosquitia. 



4. Porzana letjoopyrrha, PI. LVI, from S. Brazil, Paraguay and La Plata. ■ 



July, 1868. 



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