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Show 546 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [June 3, "The nest is round like a ball, made of coarse grass stalks, lined and covered with grass bents and blades, and has a side entrance. It is built 3 or 4 feet from the ground amongst the densest coarse herbage and shrubs, in wild open parts where the forest has been cut down. For ascending and descending it forms a kind of ladder with a platform in front of nest. Lays but two eggs, and is exceedingly shy."-T. K. S. 445. PORZANA ALBIGULARIS (Lawr.) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 454. Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. Egg (no. 110) pale buff-white, sparsely spotted with small red spots: axis 1*1, diam. *9. " The nest is made of grass stalks and bents, and is round, with a side entrance, and placed amongst high grass and bushes in low swampy places, about two feet above the ground or water."- T. K. S. 446. PORPHYRIO MARTINICUS (Linn.) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 459. Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris red. " Builds a nest of flags and grass amongst reeds by the water's edge."-T. K. S. 4>47. GALLINULA GALEATA (Licht.) ; Scl. &Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 462, Antioquia. (Mus. S.-G.) "The nest is composed of flags and dried grasses, and is placed on low overhanging branches or amongst reeds." - T. K. S. 448. HELIORNIS FULICA (Bodd.); Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 469. ALECTORIDES. 449. EURYPYGA MAJOR, Hartlaub. Neche. Iris dark. LIMICOLiE. 450. PARRA HYPOMEL.ENA, Gray. Antioquia, Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. Stomach contained insects. Egg (no. 123) olive, thickly streaked with broad black lines, crossing one another in all directions : axis 1*2, diam. *9. 451. VANELLUS CAYENNENSIS (Gm.). Retiro, Concordia, Frontino. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris red. Egg (no. 126) olive-brown, spotted with brownish-black spots of |