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TahUomis Mathews, Syst. Av. Austral., ii, 1930, app. 904, note. (Type, by- 

 original designation, Rallus paciflcus GmeUu=Rallus ecaudata J. F. Miller.) 



Hypotaenidia Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat, 1852, xxiii. (Type, by orig- 

 inal designation, Rallus pectoralis "Cuvier," not Rallus pectoralis Temminck 

 = Hypotaenidia australis Pelzeln.) 



Stictolimnas Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus., xv, No. 4, 1893, 274. (Type, by 

 original designation, Stictolimnas sharpei Buttikofer=young Hypotccnidia 

 sp.) 



Lewinia Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, 1855, 120. (Type, by monotypy, Rallus 

 lewinii ^vminson— Rallus pectoralis Temminck and Laugier.) 



Donacias Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 321. (Nom. nov. 

 pro Lewinia Gray.) 



Rather small to rather large Ralli with culmen as long as or longer 

 than tarsus, second primary (from outside) longest or equal to 

 longest, flanks conspicuously barred with white, and dorsal region 

 striped with black or dusky. 



Figure 3. — Rallus limicola limicola. Natural size. 



Bill slender to moderately stout, longer than head, the culmen as 

 narrowly elliptical or slitlike., on line with axis of maxilla^ much 

 posterior to middle of maxilla, its posterior end separated from 

 laterof rontal antia by a space about equal to basal height of maxilla ; 

 laterofrontal angle at base of upper edge of nasal fossa, thence 

 long as or longer than tarsus, slightly elevated and widened basally, 

 slightly depressed and more constricted medially, slightly (but usually 

 decidedly) decurved distally, rounded (in transverse section) 

 throughout; gonys about half as long as mandibular rami (sometimes 

 more, sometimes less), nearly straight (except at tip, where more or 

 less convex), not prominent basally, the mandibular rami without 

 distinct lateral groove; nasal fossa extending for much more than 

 half (sometimes for two-thirds) the length of maxilla (measured 

 from laterofrontal antia), well-defined throughout; nostril very 

 receding in a straight or gently curved line to the rictus ; malar antia 



