BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 



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Medium-sized Rallinae (wing about 140 mm.) with stout bill and 

 tarsi, planta tarsi with two lateral rows of transverse scutella, the 

 two rows in contact along the sharp posterior ridge, and with the 

 underparts conspicuously spotted and barred with white and black. 



Bill much longer than head, stout, its depth at posterior end of 



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Figure's. — Pardirallus maculatus maculaius. Natural size. 



nostril equal to more than one-fifth the length of culmen, its width 

 at same point equal to more than half the depth ; culmen decidedly 

 longer than tarsus, elevated and expanded basally (where irregularly 

 corrugated and with obtusely angled posterior outline), slightly de- 

 pressed above anterior portion of nostril, thence gradually but rather 

 strongly decurved to the tip ; gonys more than half as long as mandib- 



