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Show 452 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN [June 2o, Rdle a ventre roux de Cayenne, Buff. Pl. Enl. 753; unde Rallus poliotis, Temm. Table d. Pl. Enl. p. 98. Supra olivaceus : pileo castaneo: lateribus capitis cinereis : subtus castaneus; rostro plumbeo; pedibus carneis: long, tota 6*0, alee 3*5, caudee 1*3, tarsi 1*35, dig. med. cum ungue 1*4, rostri a rictu 0*8. Hab. Cayenne (Buffion); Para (Wallace); Brasil. merid. orient. (Max. fy Burmeister). Mus. Brit., S. & G. 4. PORZANA LEVRAUDI, sp. nov. (Plate XXXV.) Supra omnino fuscescenti-olivaceus, alis extus et cauda saluratiori-bus, fere nigricantibus: subtus rubiginoso-rufus, medialiter dilutior : gula et pectore medio albis: rostro et pedibus olivaceis : long, tota 6*0, alee 3*0, caudee 1*5, rostri a rictu 0*8, tarsi 1*1. Hab. Venezuela, in vicin. urbis Caraccas (Levraud). Mus. Parisiensi. Obs. Species forma et crassitie Porzance cayennensis, sed differt corpore supra unicolori, subtus medialiter albo. 5. PORZANA RUBRA. Corethrura rubra, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 300 ; Ibis, 1860, p. 277. Porzana rubra, Scl. & Salv. Ex. Orn. t. xvi. p. 31. Leete rufa, subtus medialiter dilutior ; gula albicantiore; pileo toto et lateribus capitis saturate cinereis: remigibus et rectricibus cum uropygio obscure fusco-nigris : rostro nigro : pedibus olivaceis : long, tota 60, alee 3*3, caudce 1*4, tarsi 1 "35, digiti med. cum ungue 1*55, rostri a rictu 0*85. Hab. Guatemala (Salvin). Mus. Brit., S. & G. 6. PORZANA CONCOLOR. Rallus concolor, Gosse, B. Jam. p. 369, et 111. t. 103 (1847); March, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1864, p. 69. "Rallus castaneus, Cuv.," Puch. R. Z. 1851, p. 279. Rallina castanea, Schlegel, Mus. de P.-B. Ralli, p. 17. Corethrura guatemalensis, Lawr. Proc. Acad. Phil. 1863, p. 106. Corethrura cayennensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 64 ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 230. Supra omnino fusco-rubiginosus unicolor: subtus pure rubiginoso-rufus: long, tota 8*5, alee 4*8, caudce 2*6, tarsi 1*7, rostri a rictu 1*1. Hab. Jamaica (Gosse); Honduras, O m o a (Leyland); Guatemala (Lawrence); vicinity of Bahia (Wucherer). Mus. Brit., Derb., Paris., S. & G. W e have compared Leyland's specimen of this bird from Omoa with Gosse's type from Jamaica, which is now in the British Museum, and find them identical. W e therefore conclude that Mr. |