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b. Size very small, wings 161 mm. or less in length. 



Gallinula chloropus pauxilla ( extralimital ) " 

 66. Size larger, wings over 165 mm. 

 c. Whole back, rump, and most of upper wing coverts extensively suffused 



with brown (argus brown to raw umber) 



Gallinula chloropus cachinnans (p. 184) 

 cc. Baciv and wings only slightly suffused with brownisli. 



<f. Tarsus longer, over 55 mm Gallinula chloropus cerceris (p. 190) 



dd. Tarsus shorter, under 55 mm 



Gallinula chloropus galeata (extralimital) ™ 



"Gallinula chloropus pauxilla. — (?) Gallinula galeata (not Crcx (/aleata 

 Lichteustein ?) ; Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1874, 559 (Chorillos 

 and Junin, Peru) ; Orn. Perou, iii, 1886, 327, part. ?; Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1878, 176 (Laguna de Tambo, w. Peru), 462, part (mongr.), 

 570 (w. Peru) ; Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1874, 559 (Chorillos and 

 Junin, Peru) ; Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1892, 399 

 (Lima and Callao, w, Peru) ; 1902, 50 (Ingapira, Peru) ; Salvador! and Festa, 

 Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino, xv, 1900, 40 (Vinces, w. Ecuador); (?) Chubb, Ibis, 

 1919, 54 (Eten and Trujillo, nw. Peru; Reque, Lambayeque, Peru; crit.) ; 

 (?) Lonnberg and Rendahl, Arkiv for Zool., xiv. No. 25, 1922, 19 (La Carolina, 

 near Quito, and Lake San Pablo, prov. Imbabura, 8,000 feet, Ecuador). — Gal- 

 linula chloropus pauxilla Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, v, 1915, 96 

 (Guabinas, Rio Cauca, Colombia; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.); Chapman, Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, xxxvi, 1917, 219 (Cali, Cauca Valley, Colombia; crit.) ; 

 Hartert, Nov. Zool., xxii, 1917, 269 (crit.) ; Peters, Check-list Birds of World, 

 ii, 1934, 205.— Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxvii, 1939, 190 (n. Venezuela). 



™ Gallinula chloropus galeata. — [Fiilica] chloropus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 

 12, i, 17G6, 258, part (not of ed. 10, 1758) ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat, i, pt. 2, 1789, 698, 

 part; [Galli7iula] chloropus Latham, Synop. Birds, Suppl., i, 1787, 293, part; 

 Index Orn., ii, 1790, 770, part. — Cirexl^ galeata Lichtenstein, Stlug. and Vog. Mus. 

 Berlin, 1818, 36 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil; cites "Fulica chlor[opus] Amer. Merid. 

 Gmel[in] ; Gall[inula] chlor[opus] Amer. Merid. Lath[am] ; Yahania propre- 

 mentadit Azara") ; Verz. Doubl., 1823, 80 (Sao Paulo) .—Gallinula fusca Vieillot, 

 Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xiii, 1817, 404, part ("America"). — G[allinula'\ galeata 

 Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. Britisch-Guiana, iii, 1848, 760. — Gallinula galeata 

 Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Thiere Bras., iii, 1856, 389; Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 262 

 (Parana, Argentina) ; L^otaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 503; Euler, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1807, 197 (Brazil; descr. nest and eggs); Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 818, 459; 

 Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 462, part (monogr.) ; White, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1882, 627 (Buenos Aires, Argentina) ; Barrows, Auk, 

 i, 1884, 277 (Concepci6n, Uruguay, resident) ; Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1886, 177 (Brit. Guiana) ; Berlepsch, Journ, fiir Orn., 1887, 125 (Paraguay) ; 

 Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, 300 (Brit. Guiana) ; Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat Hist., 

 vi, 1894, 78 (Trinidad) ; Sharpe, Cat Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 177, part 

 (Caicara, Brazil; Trinidad; Lujua Bridse, Argentina); Aplin, Ibis, 1894. 204 

 (Rio Mongon, Uruguay) ; Koenigswald, Journ. fiir Orn., 1896, 393 (Sao Paulo, 

 Brazil) ; Salvadori, Boll. Mus. Zool., Torino, xii, 1897, 34 (San Lorenzo, Argen- 

 tina ) ; Holmberg, Secundo Cent. Argentina, 1898, 571 ; Ihering, Rev. Mus. 

 Paulista, iii, 1899, 417 (Sao Paulo) ; iv, 1900, 164 (Cantogallo, Sao Paulo) ; vi, 

 1904, 343 (Paraguay; (?) Lonnberg, Ibis, 1903, 459 (Tatarenda, Bolivia); 

 Reiser, Denk.schr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat Kl., 1910, 96 (Joazeiro, ne. 

 Brazil); Dabbene, Orn. Argentina, 1910, 196 (Tucuman; Ocampo, Chaco; 



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