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Adnlt male.—Wmg 68-77 (72.4); tail 29.5-37 (33.7); exposed 

 culmeii 15-17 (16.1) ; tarsus 21.5-25 (23.5) ; middle toe without claw 

 26-29.}^ ^27.2 mm.).^" 



Achat female.— Wmg 71-73 (72.3) ; tail 31-34 (32.5) ; exposed 

 culmen 14-15.5 (14.8) ; tarsus 22.5-23 (22.8) ; middle toe without 

 claw 25-25.5 (25.3 mm.). «° 



Range.— RQsidi^nt in Honduras (Segovia Elver) and Nicaragua 

 (Escondido Kiver) and in northern South America— Colombia 

 (Guajaro Lagoon, La Pefia), Trinidad; and Venezuela (Merida) ; to 

 British Guiana (Bonsika Kiver, Abary Eiver) ; Dutch Guiana 

 (Maroni River) ; French Guiana (Cayenne) ; to Ecuador (Esmer- 

 aldas) and eastern Peru (Nauta and Ucayali River) ; and northern 

 Brazil (Amazonia; Teffe, Rio Solimoes; Rio Negro; Marabitanas: 

 Para) . Not yet recorded between Nicaragua and Colombia. 



Type locality. — Cayenne. 



Gallimila ruficollis Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1S37, 349 (America). 



0[rtygometra] cinerea Gray, Geu. Birds, iii, 1846, 593. 



Ortygometra cinerea L£otaxjd, Ois. Triuidad, 1866, 495 (Trinidad). 



Porzana cinerea (not of Schlegel, 1865), Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1S68, 456; 1873, 308 (Ucayali, Peru ) .— Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1871, 

 317 (Marabitanas, Brazil). — Taczanowski, Orn. Perou, iii, 1886, 822 

 (Ucayali). — Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vi, 1894, 79 (Trinidad). 



yPorzuna^clnerea Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 140. 



{Aramidesl cinerea Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 61, No. 10447. 



Rallus exilis Temminck, PI. Col., v, 1831, pi. 523 and text. — Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 

 1831, 538. 



[Lateriralhis'l exilis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 599. 



Porzana exilis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas. v. No. 30, livr. 7, 1865, 33. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, 567 (Rio Ucayali, e. Peru). 



Creciscus exilis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiii, 1894, 138 (Trinidad; Cay- 

 enne; Maroni River, Surinam; Nauta, e. Peru). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 323 (crit. ; distr.). — Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., sv, 

 1908, 290 (Cayenne). — Chubb, Birds British Guiana, i, 1916, 76. — Snethlage, 

 Bol. Mus. Goeldi, viii, 1914, 72 (Para, Brazil). 



C[7-ccisciis] exilis Penaed (F. P. and A. P.), Vogels van Guyana, i, 1908, 209 

 (Amazonia, the Guianas, and Trinidad). 



[Creciscus] exilis Ihering (H. and R.), Aves Brazil, 1907, 30 (Amazonia; Rio 

 Negro; Para). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds South America, i, 1912, 24 

 (Peru; Amazonia; Guiana; Trinidad). 



Creciscus exilis exilis Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., xiv, 1907, 90 (Teff^, Brazil; crit.). — 

 Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, Iv, 1926, 177 (Esmeraldas, Ecuador, 

 specimen; also refex's to another specimen from Manaos, Brazil). — Naum- 

 BURG, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ix, 1930, 73 (Brazil — Rio Negro, Marabi- 

 tanas, Teffe, Rio Solimoes, Para; also Guiana, Trinidad; Peru). 



Laterallus exilis exilis Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 190. — Belcher 

 and Smooker, Ibis, 1935, 284 (Trinidad; breeds; nest and eggs described). 



^ Seven specimens from Brazil, Nicaragua, and Honduras, including the type 

 of L. e. vagans (Ridgway). 



""Three specimens from Brazil. 



