PORZANA ALBIGULAWS.
P l a t e L V .
PORZANA ALBIGULARIS ,
aVHITE-TIfflOATED CEiAKE).
Corethrura alhigularis
Porzana alligularis
Lawrence, A n n . Lyc. N . Y. vii, p. 3
Scl. a n d Salv. P.Z.S . 1864, p. 372.
Scl. an d Salv. P.Z .S . 1867, p. 280.
S u p rà fusca, la te rib u s capitis e t cervice po stieâ c a s ta n e is ; su b tu s alba, p e cto re c astan eo p e rfu so : h y p o chondriis,
v en tris la te rib u s e t crisso albo n igroque tran s fa sc ia tis ; ro s tro oliváceo, pedibus fuscis ; long, to ta 5 '5 , alæ 2 9 , caudæ
I ' l , ta rs i I ' l , r o s tr i a ric tu 0'9.
H a l. in Irihm . P a n am i ( J f i i l a « » « » ) : Costa E ic i (A r c i) : M o sq n it ii (W io tlam ').
This little Crake is a northern representative o f the foregoing speeies, but is distingnisliable
by avell marked oharacters. The ohestnot neck and breast, the regularly barred crissum and tho
smaller size render it easily recognizable when compared with its southern ally.
The White-throated Crake is one o f Mr. McLeannan’s numerous discoveries on the Isllimus
o f Panama, and was first described by Mr. Lawrence in 1861 from specimens transmitted to him
by that well-known collector. The bird would appear to be not uncommon in this locality,
Mr. McLeannan having likewise suppUed the collection o f Messrs. Salvin and'Godman with
several examples o f it, from one o f which onr illustration has heen prepared. In these figures
it will be noticed that the wings are wholly unspotted, but it should be stated that one o f the
Panama skins shews black and white bars on the greater and lesser wing coverts, and that a
second has some traces o f the same cliaraeter. These markings would, however, probably
disappear in tlie adult bird.
Northwards o f Panama we liave traced the occurrence o f this Crake into Costa Eica,
whence a single specimen, obtained at Barranca on the gu lf o f Nicoya, has been transmitted
to us by Arcé, and up the eastern coast o f Centi-al America as far as the Blewfields river,
where 5Ir. Henrj' ‘Wickham met with it during his excursion into the Mosquito territor}”.
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