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Hogar, Guapile, Guayabal, Jimenez, Volcan de Miravalle, and Volcan 



de Turrialba). 



Type locality. — Jimenez, Costa Kica. 



Aramides cayennensis (not Fulica cayennensis Gmelin).— Frantzius, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1869, 375 (Costa Rica). 



Aramides alhiventris (not of Lawtence, 1867) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 

 New York, ix, 186S, 143 (Co.sta Rica).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 319, part (Costa Rica). 



[Aramides cayatwa.} Subsp. ^ Aramides alhiventris Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxiii, 1894, 59, part (Costa Rica). 



Aramides phimbeicollis Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 131, 138 

 (nomen nudum) ; ii, 1888, 3 (Jimenez, Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 33, footnote.— Underwood, Ibis, 

 1896, 450 (Volcan de Miravalles, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 320, part (Miravalles, Carrillo, and Jimenez, 

 Costa Rica).— Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 26, part (geogr. 

 range). 



Alramides] plumieicollis Dickey, Condor, xxxi, 1929, 33, in text (characters; 

 crit.). 



[Aramides] plumheicollis Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 98. 



Aramides alhiventris plumheicollis Bangs, Amer. Nat., xli, 1907, 186 part 

 (monogr.). — Ferry, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. 146 (orn. ser., i. No. 6), 

 1910, 260 (Guayabo, Costa Rica; crit.). — Cabrikee, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 

 1910, 409 (El Hogar, Guapiles, and Volcan de Turrialba at 2,000 feet, 

 Costa Rica). 



Aramides cajanea plumheicollis Peters, Checlv-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 175. 



ARAMIDES CAJANEA CAJANEA (P. L. S. MuIIcr) 



Guiana Wood-rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — ^Forehead, cro\Yn, and hind neck slate-gray; 

 the occiput similar but much washed with Saccardo's umber; inter- 

 scapulars, scapulars, upper back, and inner upper wing coverts 

 citrine-drab to Saccardo's olive; the outer lesser and median upper 

 wing coverts similar but extensively tinged with light buckthorn 

 brown; the greater upper primary coverts, alula, and remiges hazel, 

 becoming slightly duskier toward the tips of the primaries and ex- 

 tensively so on the secondaries ; lower back Saccardo's umber to sepia ; 

 rump, upper tail coverts, rectrices, flanks, middle of lower abdomen, 

 vent, and under tail coverts dull black, the feathers of the rump and 

 the upper tail coverts often with indistinct margins of Saccardo's 

 umber; lores, cheeks, and auriculars pale neutral gray to light neu- 

 tral gray; chin and upper throat white; sides of neck, the lower 

 throat, and upper breast gull gray to deep gull gray ; rest of breast, 

 the upper abdomen, and sides pinkish cinnamon to cinnamon ; thighs 

 mouse gray; under wing coverts like the sides, but broadly banded 

 with blackish; iris red; orbital ring red; bill yellow at base, green 

 terminally; tarsi and toes geranium pink. 



