This Ypecaha would never allow any one to touch it, but it would come into the house and search through all the rooms for thimbles, scissors, and other small metal objects, and these it would carry away to conceal them among the weeds or else bury them in the mud. It was also a good mouser, and after killing a mouse with a blow from its beak would swallow it entire. 374. PORZANA LEUCOPYRRHA (Vieill.). (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. 375. PORZANA SALINASI (Philippi). (SPOT-WINGED CRAKE.) +Rallus salinasi+, _Philippi, Wiegm. Arch._ 1857, pt. i. p. 262 (Chili); _Burm. Ibis_, 1888, p. 285. +Porzana spiloptera+, _Durnford, Ibis_, 1877, p. 194, pl. iii. (Buenos Ayres). _Description._--Above olive-brown with black markings; wings with white cross bands; front, sides of head, and body beneath plumbeous; flanks dark grey, with transverse bars of white; under tail-coverts barred with black and white; beak dark horn-colour; feet rather lighter: whole length 5·5 inches. _Hab._ Chili and Argentina. In 1876 Durnford obtained a specimen of this Crake from the river-scrub near Belgrano in the province of Buenos Ayres, and described and figured it in 'The Ibis' under the MS. name "_spiloptera_," which had been given by Dr. Burmeister to an example of the same bird in the Buenos Ayres Museum. Dr. Burmeister has, however, recently ascertained that the appellation which he proposed for this species must give way to that of _salinasi_, under which title it was described in 1857 by Dr. Philippi of Santiago. _Porzana salinasi_, as we must therefore call it, is most nearly allied to _P. spilonota_ of the Galapagos (_cf._ Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 456), but has the wings more distinctly striped, and the back olive-brown, with black markings, and not of a uniform ferruginous. 376. PORZANA NOTATA (Gould). (MARKED CRAKE.) +Zapornia notata+, _Gould, Zool. Voy. Beagle_, iii. p. 132, pl. xlviii. (La Plata). +Porzana notata+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 140; _iid. P. Z. S._ 1868, p. 456; _Sclater, P. Z. S._ 1876, p. 255.