Order RALLIF0BME8 
No. 58. 
Family RALLIDM. 
PORZANA PLUMBEA IMMACULATA. 
SPOTLESS CRAKE. 
(Plate 53.)* 
Gallinula IMMACULATA Swaiiison, An. in Menag., p. 337 (1838), Tasmania. 
Gallinula immaculata Swainson, An. in Menag., p. 337 (1838). 
Ortygometra plumhea (part) Gray, List Spec, in Brit. Mus., III., p. 120 (1844), 
Corethrura tabuensis (part) Gray, Genera Birds, III., p. 595 (1846). 
Pormna (?) immaculata Gould, B. Austr., VI., PI. 82 (1848). 
Pormrm, (?) tabuensis Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 341 (1865). 
Pormna tabuensis Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 194 (1876) ; id., ib., II., p. 200 (1877) r 
id.. Tab. List Austr. B., p. 25 (1888) (part) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXIII., p. Ill 
(1894) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 77 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B,, p. 743 
(1901) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., 2nd Ed., p. 77 (1906) ; Littler, Handb. B. Tasmania, 
p. 114 (1910). 
Phalaridium tabuense Heine und Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein., p. 319 (1888). 
Ortygometra tabuensis Hartert, Katal. Vog. Mus. Seuckenberg, p. 212 (1891). 
Porzana tahitiensis (part) Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 144 (1894). 
Pormna 'plumbea Sharpe, Handl. B. Brit. Mus., I., p. 102 (1899) ; Mathews, Handl. B. 
Austral., p. 13 (1908) ; Oglivie-Grant, Ibis, p. 187 (1910). 
Distribution. Australia ; Tasmania. 
Adult male. Colour above chocolate-brown ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater seriea 
dull sepia-brown, externally chocolate-brown ; bastard-wing sepia-brown, with white 
margins to the outer feathers ; the primary-coverts and quills sepia-brown, the first 
primary edged vdth white, the inner secondaries blackish, margined with chocolate- 
brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail blackish, slightly washed with chocolate-brown ; top 
of the head and hind-neck slaty-black ; lores, sides of face, sides of neck and entire 
under -surface of body dark leaden-grey, a little paler on the throat ; under tail-coverts 
black, with a few twin spots or bars of white ; axillaries ashy-brown with narrow 
whitish ends ; under wing -coverts dusky grey, more or less intermixed with white ; 
quills dusky browm below ; “ Bill black ; eye and eyeJash red ; feet dull brick-red ” 
(Gould). Total length, 181 mm. ; culmen, 20 ; wing, 82 (varies from 80 to 91) ; tail, 
50 ; tarsus, 26, 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
* The Plate ia lettered Porzana plumbea. 
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