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Ibis, 1873, 373 (Chontales, Nicaragua).— Salvin, Ibis, 1886, 176 (Merum6 

 Mountains, British Guiana). 



[Porzana] concolor Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 459, part. — Sclatee and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 140, part (Guatemala). 



[Aramides] concolor Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 61, No. 10435. 



Amaurolimnas concolor Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 87, part (Guate- 

 mala ; Chontales, Nicaragua; Merum6 Mountains, Brit. Guiana). — Sclater, 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xv, 1894, xxiii (near Lima, Peru; fresh colors of nude 

 parts) ; Ibis, 1894, 299 (near Lima ; specimen). — Hartert, Nov. Zool., ix, 1902, 

 604 (San Javier, nw. Ecuador; fresh colors of unfeathered parts.) — SALvaN 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1907, 321, part (Guatemala ; Omoa, 

 Honduras; Chontales, Nicaragua; Guiana). — Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 

 128, 1914, 26, part (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guiana). — Chubb, 

 Birds British Guiana, i, 1916, 69 (Merum6 Mountains; Supenaam River, 

 Arawari River; colors of soft parts). — Natjmburg, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist, Ix, 1930, 72, part (distr. ; Brazil, Matto Grosso; Engenho do Cap Gama, 

 Rio GuApor^; Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala). 



[Amaurolimnas] concolor Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1S99, 101, part (Guatemala to 

 Guiana; w. Peru). — Iheeing (H. and R.), Aves Brazil, 1907, 39, part (Matto 

 Grosso). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds South America, i, 1912, 23, part 

 Guiana, Peru). 



Rufirallus concolor Boucaed, Liste Ois.-recol. Guatemala, 1878, 12 (Guatemala). 



? Rallina castanea Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, v, No. 30, livr. 7, 18G5, 17, part 

 (Bolivia; (?) Brazil). 



? IRufiralhtsl boeoki Bonapaki-e, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 599. 



? [Ara7nidcs'\ boeckii Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 61, No. 10438 (Bolivia). 



? [Enjthrolininas] Boeclci Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Heiu. Orn., 1890, 

 320 (Bolivia, 1 specimen). 



Coretlirura caycnncnsis (not Rallus cayennensis Gmelin) Moore, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1859, 64 (Omoa, Honduras; habits). — Scl.\tee and Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1859, 230 (Omoa). 



Oorethrura Gautcmalensis Lawrence, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, xv, 

 1863, 106, 107 (Guatemala; coll. G. N. Lawrence). 



Porzana Ouatemalensis Lawrence, Ibis, 1871, 370 (crit.), 



Amaurolimnas concolor guatemalcnsis Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, 

 xxxvi, 1917, 217 (Barbacoas, sw. Colombia; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Chiri- 

 qui, w. Panama; meas. ; crit.); Iv, 1926, 177 (northwestern Ecuador).— 

 Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxi, 1931, 301 (Almirante, Panama).— 

 Griscom, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ixiv, 1932, 121 (Guatemala).— 

 Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 171, part (Guatemala to Ecua- 

 dor).— Griscom, BulL Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxviii, 1935, 304 (Guatemala to 

 w. Ecuador; very rare in Panama— Chiriqui and Almirante).— Pinto, Rev. 

 Mus. Paulista, xxiii, 1938, 544 (Manacapuru, Amazonia). 



Genus ARAMIDES Pucheran 



Aramides Pucheran, Rev. Zool., viil, 1845, 277. (Type, as designated by Gray, 



1S55, Ftilica cayennensis Gmelin=F. cajanea Miiller.) 

 Arimidis (misspelling) Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 



219. 

 Ortyyarclius Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. Britisch Guiana, iii, 1848 (publ. 



1849), 759. (Substitute for Aramides, on grounds of purism.) 



Very large Ralleae (some species the largest of American Rallinae, 

 wing about 170-225 mm.) with bill longer than head but culmen 



