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KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF ARAMIDES 



a. Under wing coverts black and white, with no brownish. 



b. Under wing coverts black, broadly tipped, but not otherwise barred with 



white Aramides calopterus (extralimital)" 



6&. Under wing coverts barred black and white— Aramides axillaris (p. 124) 

 aa. Under wing coverts brown, with or without white or blackish bars. 

 b. Underparts entirely slate gray, throat white. 



Aramides saracura (extralimital)" 

 bb. Breast rufescent. 

 c. No gray on the throat. 



d. Abdomen black Aramides wolfi (extralimital)" 



dd. Abdomen ashy Aramides mang'le (extralimital)" 



" Aramides calopterus. — Aramides calopterus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1878, 439, pi. 28 (Sarayacu, e. Ecuador; coll. Brit. Mus.) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 62 (Sarayacu) ; Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., Iv, 1926, 136 (Rio Suno and below San Jos6, Ecuador) ; Peters, 

 Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 176. — [Araynidcs^ calloptera Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, i, 1899, 98. 



"Aramides saracura. — Oallinula saracura Spix, Av. Bras., ii, 1823, 75, pi. 98 

 (Brazil). — Aramides saracura Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 

 1868, 449; Reinhardt, Vid. Medd. Kj0benhavn, 1870, 44; Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 

 1871, 316, 458; Taczanowski, Orn. P6rou, iii, 1886, 319; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xxili, 1894, 61 (Santa Fe in Minas Geraes, Pelotas in Rio Grande 

 do Sul, and Ypanema, Brazil) ; Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 

 176.— [Aramides] saraoura Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 60, No. 10428; Sclater 

 and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 139; Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 98.—RaUus 

 nigricans (not of Vieillot) Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, iv, 

 1825, 386; Burmeister, Journ. fiir Orn., 1853, 176 (descr. eggs).— Rallus 

 melanurus Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, v, pt. 1, 1825, 139 

 (no locality mentioned). — Gallinula plumbca Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Aves, 

 1845-6, 52, 302. — 0[allinula] plumbea Tschudi, Wiegmann's Archiv. fiir Nat., 

 s, pt. i, 1844, 313 (Peru). — Aramides pJumbeus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 

 594. — Aramides plumbeas Hartlaub, Syst. Azara's Apunt., 1847, 23; Burmeister, 

 Syst. Ueb. Thiere Bras., iii, 1856, 383 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, 1865, 15.— 

 Rallus hydrogallina "Less"[on] Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1851, 569 (crit. ; 

 new name for Gallinula saracura Spix?). — Ortygarchus saracura Heine and 

 Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 320. 



"Aramides wolfi. — Aramides wolfi Berlepsch and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool, 

 Soc. London, 1883, 576 (Chimbo, w. Ecuador) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiii, 1894, 55 (Balzar Mountains, w. Ecuador) ; Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. 

 Zool. Torino, xv, 1900, 40 (Foress del Rio Peripa, w. Ecuador; crit.). — Chapman, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Iv, 1926, 175 (Mindo, Manglar Alto, Rio de Oro, 

 Naranjo, and La Chonta, Ecuador) ; Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 

 175. — [Aramides'\ wolfi, Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 97; Brabourne and Chubb, 

 Birds South America, i, 1912, 23 (w. Ecuador; w. Colombia). 



"Aramides mangle. — Gallinula mangle Spix, Av. Bras., ii, 1825, 74, pi. 97 

 (coast of Brazil). — Rallus mangle Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., iii, Gallinae, 1844, 

 115, part. — Aramides mangle Burmeister, Syst.-Ueb. Thiere Bras., ii, 1856, 385, 

 footnote; Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 449 (Bahia, Brazil); Pelzeln, 

 Orn. Bras., 1871, 316 (Sapitiba) ; Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., viii, 1876, 82 

 (Santarem) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 54 (Bahia) ; Hellmayr, 

 Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool, Ser. xii. No. 18, 1929, 481 (restricted type loc, coast 



