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Adult m«Ze.— Wing 165-169; tail 59; exposed culmen 52-53; tarsus 

 67, 67; middle toe without claw 47-48 mm.^^ 



Adult female.— Wing 163-170; tail 58.5-64; exposed culmen 52, 

 52 ; tarsus 6&-67.5 ; middle toe without claw 45 mm.^^ 



Eange.— Resident in, and restricted to, the type locality. 



Type locality.— ^2in Miguel Island, Bay of Panama. 

 Aramides cajwnea chiricote (not Rallus chiricote Vieillot) Thatee and Bangs, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xlvi, 1905, 145 (San Miguel Island, Bay of Panama ; 



crit. ) . 

 Aramides cajanea latens Bangs and Penaed, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixii, 1918, 

 41 (San Migtiel Island, Bay of Panama; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.)— Bangs, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 168 (type specimen in Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 crit.).— Pei-ers, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 175.— Griscom, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxviii, 1935, 304 (Pearl Islands). 



ARAMIDES AXILLARIS Lawrence 



RurOtrS-NECKED WOOD-BArL 



Adult ma?e.— Forehead, crown, occiput, nape, anterior half or more 

 of hind neck, sides of neck, the lower throat, breast, and sides of 

 upper abdomen reddish auburn to chestnut ; lores, cheeks, auriculars, 

 and sides of upper throat similar but slightly paler; posterior part 

 of hind neck and interscapulars slate gray, forming a triangle with 

 the apex forward on the hind neck; upper back and scapulars olive 

 to dark greenish olive; upper wing and innermost secondaries light 

 brownish olive to buffy olive, the outermost coverts tinged with 

 russet; other secondaries dark olive-brown; primaries cinnamon- 

 rufous, darkening to dark olive-brown on the imier webs, especially 

 toward the shaft, the external margin of the inner webs more or less 

 washed with cinnamon-rufous; lower back, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts blackish faintly tinged with fuscous; the tail black; chin 

 and middle of upper throat white; middle of abdomen deep mouse 

 gray darkening to blackish mouse gray posteriorly; flanks, thighs, 

 vent, and under tail coverts blackish with a faint fuscous tinge ; under 

 wing coverts fuscous-black banded with white, those along the bend 

 of the wing with the white replaced by cinnamon-rufous; iris hazel; 

 bill grass green, its basal portion yellow ; tarsi and toes vermilion to 

 dull salmon-red. 



Adult female. — ^Like the adult male but with the chin and middle 

 upper throat averaging very slightly washed with pale cinnamon. 



Juvenal (only one sexed ( 9 ) and several unsexed examples seen, 

 but the sexes probably alike). — Forehead, crown, and occiput dusky 

 olive-brown, becoming more grayish, less brownish, but not paler, on 

 the hind neck ; posterior hind neck and interscapulars as in adult but 



^Two specimens. 



''Two specimens, including the type. 



