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Dr. Schlegel's Porzana scliomburghi (Mus. de P. B. Ralli, p. 37) can hardly be of this species 

 if his description is correct.* It would appear to be more like Sclater's P. erythrops, to which 

 therefore, we have provisionally referred it. 



The original discoverer of this Eail was Dr. Eichard Schomburgk, who obtained a pair of 

 the species during his excursion to the Eoraima mountains of British Guiana in November, 1842 

 at an elevation of about 3300 feet above the sea-level, and gave a short description of it in 

 the second volume of his well-known travels. Dr. Schomburgk tells us that it is very easy to 

 catch it alive, as after a short flight it endeavours to conceal itself in the grass. He thus 

 captured a male and female and kept them for some time in a cage. From Guiana and 

 Cayenne, it appears to extend into Venezuela, whence specimens have been forwarded by M. 

 Levraud to the Paris Museum. The single specimen in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and 

 Godman from which our figure is taken is from the latter country, and was obtained by Mr. 

 Anton Goering near Caripe. 



* Dessus d'un brim olivatre. Dessous gris d'ardoise ; bas ventre et sous-caudales noires avec des bandelettes 

 blanches. 



December. 1868. 





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