TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 73 



Family RALLIDAE: Rails, Coots, Gallinules 



Genus RALLUS Linnaeus 



Rallus luridus Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 223, "pi. LXiii, fig. 1," 

 1848. 

 =Rallus sanguinolentus luridus Peale. See Hellmayr and Conover, 



Catalogue of birds of the Americas 1 (1) : 318, 1942. 

 15423. Adult (sex not indicated). Orange Bay (the southwestern exten- 

 sion of Nassau Bay, between Hardy Peninsula of Hoste Island and 

 Burnt Island of the Wollaston Group), Territory of Magallanes, Chile. 

 1839. Original number 621. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838- 

 1842). 

 15425. Subadult (sex not indicated) . Orange Bay, Territory of Magal- 

 lanes, Chile. 1839. Original number 621. U.S. Exploring Expe- 

 dition (1838-1842). 

 No. 15423 was sent to the Chicago Academy of Sciences on January 28, 

 1881, and was returned to the U.S. National Museum in 1919. 

 Rallus elegans, var. obsoletus Ridgway 

 Amer. Naturalist 8: 111, February 1874. 

 =Rallus longirostris obsoletus Ridgway. See Oberholser, Proc. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. 84: 340, 1937. 

 6444. Adult (sex not indicated). San Francisco, San Francisco County, 

 California. March 1857. Collected by George Suckley. Original 

 number 603. 

 Rallus beldingi Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 5: 345, September 11, 1882. 

 =Rallus longirostris beldingi Ridgway. See Oberholser, Proc. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. 84: 338, 1937. 

 86419. Adult female. Espiritu Santo Island (lat. 24°30' N.), off the 

 eastern coast of the State of Baja California, Mexico. February 1, 

 1882. Collected by Lyman Belding. 

 Rallus elegans var. tenulrostris "Lawrence" Ridgway 

 Amer. Naturalist 8: 111, February 1874. 

 =RaUus longirostris tenuirostris Ridgway. See Oberholser, Proc. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. 84: 336, 1937. 

 52849. Adult (sex not indicated). Valley of Mexico. Entered into the 

 museum register on November 4, 1868. Collected by Andrew J. 

 Grayson. Original number 552. 

 Richmond (ms.) points out that, while Ridgway says "Type, from city 

 of Mexico, in cabinet of Mr. Lawrence," Lawrence's bird can only be the 

 "type" of a manuscript name; the specimen here listed is the one actually 

 described by Ridgway and is therefore the only real type. 



