(RED-AND-WHITE CRAKE.)
+Corethrura leucopyrrha+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 505 (Tucuman).
+Porzana leucopyrrha+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 140; _iid. P.
Z. S._ 1868, p. 454; _iid. Ex. Orn._ pl. lvi. p. 111.
_Description._--Brownish olive, head reddish; wings, tail, and hind
back darker: beneath white; sides of the head and of the neck and
breast chestnut-red; flanks barred with white and black; crissum
black in the middle, white on each side; bill olivaceous; feet
yellowish: whole length 6·75 inches, wing 3·1, tail 1·9. _Female_
similar.
_Hab._ S. Brazil, Paraguay, and N. Argentina.
This Crake is an inhabitant of Southern Brazil and Paraguay, but also
occurs in the Northern Provinces of the Argentine Republic, where it was
met with by Dr. Burmeister in Tucuman.