Order EALLIFORMES 
No. 59. 
Family BALLIDjF. 
PORZANA CINEREA LEUCOPHRYS. 
WHITE-BROWED CRAKE. 
(Plate 54.)* 
PoRzANA LEUCOPHRYS Gould, P.Z.S., p. 33 (1847), Port Essington. 
Porzanaleucophrys Gould, P.Z.S., p. 33 (1847) ; id., Birds Austr., VI., PI. 81 (1848). 
Erythra leucophrys Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XLIII., p. 600 (1856). 
Ortygometra leucophrys Einsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 181 (1865). 
Pormna cinerea (part) ScMegel, Mus.-Pays. Bas., V., Ralli, p. 32 (1865). 
Erythra qmidristrigata Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 343 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.Z.S., p. 388 
(1868) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 332 (1889). 
Porzana {Erythra) qmdristrigata Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 194 (1876). 
Porzaim cinereus Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., II,, p. 200 (1877) ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 21 
(1888). 
Poliolimnas cinereus (part) Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXIII., p. 130 (1894) ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 749 (1901) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 77 (1899) ; Le Souef, 
Emu, II., p. 156 (1903) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., XII., p. 198 (1905) ; HaU, Key B. Austr., 
2nd Ed., p. 77 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 13 (1908) ; id.. Emu, IX., 
p. 54 (1909). 
Ortygometra cinerea North, Viet. Nat., XIX,, p. 34 (1902). 
Distribution. North-western Australia ; Northern Territory ; Queensland. 
Adult Male. (General colour above dark brown mottled with black, the centres of the 
feathers being blackish with light olive-brown margins, the blackish centres being 
indistinct on the mantle, but very distinct on the back and scapulars, less pronounced 
on the lower-back, rump and upper tail-coverts, which become broAvner ; wing-coverts 
olive-brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills dark sepia-brown, the first 
primary margined with hoary white ; the innermost secondaries resembling the 
scapulars, being blackish, edged with light rufous -brown ; tail-feathers dark brown ; 
crown of head almost blackish in appearance, and slightly washed with olive-brown 
on the nape ; lores and feathers around the eye black, with a small supra -loral spot of 
white extending over the forepart of the eye ; throat white, extending in a line 
below the eye and above the ear-coverts, which are grey, like the sides of the 
neck and upper -breast ; abdomen, white ; the low’er flanks and under tail-coverts 
sandy-buff ; thighs internally whitish, externally brown ; axillaries smoky brown ; 
under wing-coverts grey, with paler tips, lower primary -coverts and under-surface of 
* The Plate is lettered Poliolimnaa cinereus. 
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