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66. Inner remiges and their upper coverts with white spots, not streakes. 



Pardirallus maculatus inoptatus (p. 103) 

 aa. Brown portions of plumage seal brown. 



Pardirallus maculatus insolitus (p. 105) 



PARDIRALLUS MACULATUS INOPTATUS (Bangs) 



Cuban Spotted Rah, 



Adult (sexes alike) .^^ — Forehead, crown, occiput, and nape cliae- 

 tura drab, darkest on forehead and washed more or less with dark 

 sepia on the crown and hind portion of the head, the feathers with 

 very fine, short, terminal white shaft streaks ; hind neck and anterior 

 interscapulars chaetura black to black, each feather with two white 

 elongated spots, one on the posterolateral corner of each web; pos- 

 terior interscapulars, scapulars, and inner upper wing coverts dark 

 chaetura black broadly margined with mummy brown and spotted 

 lengthwise with white on the edges of the feathers, the brown color 

 much more extensive on the upper wing coverts than on the scapulars 

 or interscapulars and coming to occupy practically the entire feather 

 in the outer upper wing coverts which also have much smaller and 

 many fewer white spots on them; remiges deep chaetura black to 



Zamora, Argentina; descr. nest and eggs) ; Sclater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., 

 ii, 1889, 148, pi. 19; Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vi, 1894, 79 (Trinidad) ; 

 Koenigswald, Journ. fiir Orn., 1896, 392 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil) ; Goodfellow, Ibis, 

 1902, 230 (Popayan, Colombia, fresh colors of nude parts). — [Ralliis] maculatus 

 Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 139, part. — A[ramides] maculatus Gray, 

 Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 594. — Aramides maculatus Hartlaub, Syst. Index Azara's 

 Apunt., 1847, 23.— [Aramus] maculatus Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 59, No. 10416, 

 part. — Limnopardalis maculatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 28, 

 part (Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires; Pernambuco and Rio Amazonas, Brazil; 

 Surinam; Trinidad; Bogota, Colombia); Ihering, Rev. Mas. Paulista, iv, 1900, 

 285 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil ; descr. eggs) ; Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., xiii, 1906, 52 (Caroni 

 Swamp, Trinidad) ; Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., xv, 1908, 299 (Cayenne) ; Hartert and 

 Venturi, Nov. Zool., xvi, 1909, 257 (Barracas al Sud, Argentina; descr. eggs); 

 Bertoni, Fauna Paraguaya, 1913, 37 ; Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 25, 

 part (geogr. range). — [Limnopardalis] maculatus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 95, 

 part (Paraguay; Brazil; Guiana; Colombia; Trinidad); Ihering (H. and R.), 

 Aves Brazil, 1907, 27 (Rio Grande do sul; Para; Pernambuco). — [Pardirallus] 

 maculatus Brabourne and Chubb, Birds South America, i, 1912, 22 (Colombia; 

 Trinidad; Guiana; Paraguay; Argentina).— PardfraZZus maculatus Chubb, Ibis, 

 1919, 48 (Trajello, nw. Peru; Eten, Peru; crit. ).— [Ralhis] variegatus Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 718 (Cayenne; based on Variegated Rail Latham, Synop- 

 sis Birds, iii, pt. i, 1785, 327) ; Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 760 (Cayenne).— 

 Rallus variegatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat, xxviii, 1819, 5Q5.— [Pardirallus] 

 variegatus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 599.— Rallus nivosus Swainson, 

 Anim. in Menag., 1837, 361. 



■"No males (at least none marked definitely as such on the label) seen by me, 

 but a long series of both sexes of the nominate race reveals no sexual 

 differences. 



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