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CAYENNE CRAKE. 
XOrtygometra Cayanensis.) 
On. olivaceo-fiiscus, vertice subtusque rujiis, gents nigricantibus, 
remis'ibus nisris. 
Olive-brown Crake, with the crown and under parts red, tlie 
cheeks dusky, the quills black, 
Rallus Cayanensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 718. Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 760. 
Le Kiolo. Buff. Ois. 8. 164. 
Le Rale de Cayenne. Buff. PL Enl. 368. 
Cayenne Rail. Lath. Gen. St/n. 5. 238. 
Rale a ventre roux de Cayenne. Buff. PI. Enl. 753. var. 
Length seven or eight inches : beak brown : the 
crown of the head rufous, as are all the under parts 
but the vent, which is pale : all the upper parts of 
the plumage and the thighs olive-brown : the quills 
are black : from the nape a broad dusky black band 
passes through and beneath the eyes : the legs are 
reddish-brown. One commemorated by BufFon (Enl. 
753.) was rather smaller : the upper parts of its plu- 
mage of a deeper brown : its crown chesnut : the 
chin and vent rufous-white : and the broad streak 
through the eye blue-grey : the under parts deep 
rufous, passing on to the vent and the thighs, but 
the insides and lower parts of the last are dusky. It 
is probably the opposite sex to the first described. 
Common in Cayenne and Guiana, in the latter 
country particularly, frequenting the thick bushes and 
shrubs, amongst which it builds its nest : its cry is 
