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PORZANA LEUCOPYRRHA.
PORZANA LEUCOPYRRHA.
(RED AND W IT E CRAKE).
Ypeoaha p ardo acanelado y
B a llu s Icucopyrrlius .
Corethrura leucopyrrha
Corethrura hypoleucos
Laterira llu s hypoleucus
Azara, Ap u n t. iii. p. 2 28, No. 375.
Vieü l, N. D . xsviii. p. 550, e t E dc. Me th . p . 106é.
V. Schreiber, Is is , 1823, p. 1063.
H a r tl. In d . Az. p. 24.
G ra y , Gen. iii. p . 595.
B urtn . Lar-Plata-Eeise ii. p. 505.
L ic b t. in Mu s. B e r o l.: Nomencl. p. 96.
Bp. C. E . sliii. p . 599.
rusce ac cnti.o liv a ce a, c apite rufescente, alis e x tu s e t c auda cum dorso postico ob sc urioribus : su b tu s a lb a ; la terib u s
cap itis cervicis e t p e cto ris castaneis, hypochondriis albo nig ro q u e tran s fa sc ia tis ; crÍ8so_ medio nig ro , la te r a lite r albo -.
ro s tro oliváceo, p edibus flavidis : long, to ta 6-75, alæ 3 1 , caudæ 1'9, ta rs i 1-3, r o s tr i a ric tu O 8.
Ha b . ¡n P a rag u a y a (Aza ra ) : rep . A rg e n tin á , T u cum an (B u rm ) : Bra sil, m en d . (ü íu s . B e r o l).
This species o f Crake, though closely allied to P . melanophcsa, was recognized by its
discoverer Azara as distmct, and described under a separate name in his -well-known woiJc on
the birds o f Paraguay. Burmeister, almost the only other naturalist who has met tvith it,
obtained specimens in the Province o f Tucuman in the Argentine Republic, where, he tells us, it
is usually seen in the eai’ly morning on the banks o f rivers in marshy spots. Natterer also
collected specimens of this bird somewhere in Southern Bi-azil, as has been recorded in the
“ Isis” for 1823, hut his notes on this poition o f his collection are not yet published, so that we
cannot tell the exact locality. It would appear, however, from Lichtenstein’s “ Nomenclátor’
that this Hail occurs in Nlinas Geraes, whence a single example has been fransmitted to the Berlin
5Iuseum. In form and general appearance P . leucopyrrha most nearly resembles P . melanopheeu,
but is readily distinguishable by its chestnut head and neck, by its black crissum, margined on
each side witli white, and by the generally purer and more extended white o f the under surface.
Our figure o f this bii'd is from a specimen in the collection o f Messrs. Salvin and Godman,
recently purchased from 51. Verreaux, and stated to have been received from the Brazilian
Province o f Rio Grande.
There are four American Crakes, which have the back nearly uniformly coloured and the
fliinks ban-ed, and constitute the section Laterirallus o í Prince Bonaparte; namely
1. PoHZAKA iiAUx-wELLi, PI. L I I I , from th e U p p e r Amazon.
2. POEZANA MELANOPHJEA, PI. L IV , from S. E . Brasil, Pa rag u a y , Bolivia, a n d Venezuela.
3. PoHZAiiA AiBifltTLAKis, P I. LV , from Panama, C o sta Rica, an d Mosquitia,
4. POEZANA LErooPTEEHA, PI. L V I, from S. B ra z il, P a rag u ay an d L a P la ta .
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