taxonID	type	description	language	source
03AEF32EE142FF9CDFB4D9D1FA0646BB.taxon	description	(Plate III.)	en	Durnford, Henry (1877): The Ibis, A Quarterly Journal Of Ornithology. In: nn. London: John Van Voorst, 1 Paternoster Row: 192-195, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22836713
03AEF32EE142FF9CDFB4D9D1FA0646BB.taxon	description	I have frequently ﬂushed a small Crake from the " Paja " and rough scrub near the river at Belgrano, but never been able to obtain a specimen. On the 25 th August 1876, however, a gardener gave me a bird which his dog had caught in a garden at Belgrano, and which, I think, though I cannot be certain, is of the same species as the small Crakes I have seen before. As far as I can learn, the only other specimen of the bird known is in the Museum of Buenos Ayres, and will be described by Professor Burmeister under the name of Zapornia spiloptera, in his new work on the fauna of ' this country. This specimen, like mine, was taken in a garden i almost in the city of Buenos Ayres. P. spiloptera is nearly allied to P. spilonota (found by Darwin in the Galapagos archipelago, and ﬁgured and described in the ‘ Voyage of the Beagle’). It differs, however, from the Galapagos bird in having irregular white stripes, and not merely white spots, on the wings; and the white markings on the ﬂanks and stomach are larger and clearer than in Mr. Darwin’s bird. The back also of P spilonota is ferruginous brown, but that of the Buenos-Ayres bird olive-brown with black markings. ♂. Total length 5 - 5, beak - 5, tarsus - 7. Head above olivaceous brown and black, forehead very dark slate, nearly black. Sides of head, throat, chest, and stomach dark slaty grey. Neck above and back olivaceous, centre of each feather broadly marked with black. Flanks very dark grey, with transverse bars of white. Primaries dull brown. Secondaries the same, but with a small white wedge-shaped mark in the centre of some of the feathers near their tips. Greater wing-coverts dark olivaceous, distinctly but irregularly striated with white. Tail dark brown, edges of feathers lighter. Under tail-coverts black and white in transverse bars. Beak very dark horn, nearly black. Legs and feet of a browner colour, and rather lighter. Iris crimson, inclining to scarlet. The bird had been kept alive for a day or two; and its stomach was quite empty when I received it.	en	Durnford, Henry (1877): The Ibis, A Quarterly Journal Of Ornithology. In: nn. London: John Van Voorst, 1 Paternoster Row: 192-195, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22836713
