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Range. — Resident in northern Venezuela (Margarita Island, San 

 Julian, La Guaira, and Orinoco Valley) ; and the island of Tobago. Intro- 

 duced and established in Bequia and Union Islands, Grenadines, Lesser 

 Antilles. 



Type locality. — Tobago. 



Ortalida ruficauda Jardine, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xx, 1847, 374 (Tobago) ; Contr. 

 Orn., 1848, 16, pi. 4.— Sclater and SAL\aN, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 534 

 (monogr.). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 796 (Tobago). — Cory, 

 List Birds West Indies, rev. ed., 1886, App. (Union Island, Grenadines, intro- 

 duced) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 138 (Union Island, Grenadines). 



0[rtalida] ruficauda Reichenbach, Voll. Nat. Tauben, 1861, 144. 



[Ortalida] ruficauda Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 252, No. 9510. — Sclater and Sal\in, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 136. 



Ortalis ruficauda Berlepsch, Ibis, 1884, 440 (Rio Apure, Venezuela; crit.). — Cory, 

 Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 96 (Union Island, Grenadines) ; Auk, x, 1893, 220 

 (Tobago) ; Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist, No. 137, 1909, 239 (Margarita Island, 

 Venezuela; crit.). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 507 

 (Venezuela; Tobago; Bequia Island, Grenadines) ; Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 

 237 (monogr.). — Robinson and Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 

 1901, 165 (La Guaira and San Julian, Venezuela; habits). — Clark, Auk, 

 xix, 1902, 261 (Margarita Island) ; Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xxxii, 

 1905, 245 (Bequia and Union Islands, Grenadines). — Lowe, Ibis, 1909, 322 

 (Cariaco Peninsula, Venezuela). — Cory, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., orn. 

 sen, i, 1909, 239 (Margarita Island). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds South 

 Amer., i, 1912, 11 (Venezuela; Trinidad).— Cherrie, Bull. BrookljTi Inst. 

 Sci., ii, 1916, 356 (Orinoco Valley, Venezuela). — Cherrie and Reicitenberger, 

 Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 27, 1921, 3, in text (Venezuela; Crist6bal Colon, Paria 

 Peninsula, and Tucacas, Falcon). — Delacour, Ibis, 1923, 138 (San Fernando 

 de Apure, Venezuela).— Peters, Checklist Birds of World, ii, 1934, 20. — 

 Belcher and Smooker, Ibis, 1935, 279 (Tobago; eggs). — Bond, Birds West 

 Indies, 1936, 402 (introduced in Bequia and Union Islands, Grenadines) ; Check 

 List Birds West Indies, 1940, 163. — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. 

 No. 1, 1942, 180. 



0{rtalis] ruficauda Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 276. 



[Ortalis] ruficauda Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 17. 



? Ortalis ruficauda Robinson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 658 (Margarita 

 Island). 



Ortalis rufficauda Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 96 (Union and Grenadine 

 Islands). 



Ortalida bronzina Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 11 (Venezuela). 



[Ortalida] bronzina Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 252, No. 9503. 



Phasianus garrulus Humboldt, Obs. Zool. Anat. Comp., i, livr. 1, 1805, 4, part 

 ("prov. de Caracas et Nouvelle Andalousie") ; Beob. Zool., i, 1806, 7, part 

 (Prov. Caracas, Cumana, and New Barcelona, Venezuela). 



ORTALIS WAGLERI WAGLERI (Gray) 



Wagler's Rufous-bellied Chachalaca 



Adult (sexes alike).— Forehead, crown, occiput, and hindneck dark 

 slate with a brownish tinge; malar band, cheeks, auriculars, middle of 

 chin and upper throat, and band across lower throat similar, but each 



