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according to accurate and careful observers in the latter country, mi- 

 grates further southward. Though bearing a general resemblance to 

 the northern and eastern species, Ihis Ordii, Bonap., it is quite dis- 

 tinct, and not difficult to recognize on comparison of specimens. It 

 is frequently brought in collections from New Mexico and Southern 

 California, the more so, perhaps, from the former. 



Mr. Peale states in allusion to the present species : 



"This interesting bird was observed in flocks of fifteen or twenty, 

 along the banks of fresh-water streams and lakes in Chili, during the 

 month of May. Their flight was easy and graceful. The only spe- 

 cimen saved was in immature plumage, having the head, neck, and 

 belly, sepia-brown, with a double line of white on each of the feathers 

 of the head and neck ; bill brown ; legs dusky." 



The specimen here alluded to is not in mature plumage, but is ap- 

 parently not so young as that described by Mr. Peale as Ihis hreviros- 

 iris, of which he mentions : " It was killed on the River Rimac, in 

 Peru, in July. But few others were seen, and they were all solitary, 

 and seemed to prefer thick reedy swamps, like the Rallidoe." 



As a bird of North America, this species was first noticed by our 

 friend, Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, who procured it on the Rio Zoquete, in 

 Texas, while attached to the Expedition to the River Zuni, com- 

 manded by Captain L. Sitgreaves, United States Army. It is included 

 in his catalogue of birds collected during that Expedition, in the Re- 

 port, p. 98. 



3, Family RALLID^. 

 1. Genus EALLUS, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 261 (1766), 

 1. Rallus pectoralis, Lesson. 



Rallies pectoralis, Lesson, Traite, p. 536 (1831). 

 Rallus pectoralis, Cuv. Gal. de Paris," Less, as above, 



Gould, B. of Aust. VI, Plate LXXVI. 



Of this handsome species, well known as a bird of Australia, nume- 

 rous specimens are in the collection from various islands in the Pacific, 



