FAMILY RALLIDAE 341 



Guatemala, as reddish gray with a few small spots of violet and rust 

 brown, and measurements of 34x31.5 mm. According to Schon- 

 wetter (Handb. Ool., pt. 5, 1961, p. 316) this egg has disappeared. 

 (The measurements are quoted incorrectly by Schonwetter as 33 X 

 26.5 mm.) 



When I identified the collections made on the islands of San Jose 

 and Pedro Gonzalez, in the Archipielago de las Perlas (Wetmore, 

 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 106, no. 1, 1946), I made no mention 

 of two eggs brought from San Jose by Dr. J. P. E. Morrison, after 

 I had left the island, as at that time I was not wholly certain of their 

 identity. Through familiarity with the avifauna of Panama that has 

 come since I am certain now that they are of the present species. 

 They were brought by one of the work force for the Chemical 

 Warfare Service on September 1, 1944, with the statement that they 

 had been found in a low nest, but no other information. Their 

 form is somewhat pointed short subelliptical, with the slightly glossy 

 shell smooth. The color is pale buff with a faint cinnamon cast, 

 marked sparingly with small scattered spots of chestnut brown, that 

 appear violet or grayish blue when overlaid by a thin deposit of 

 shell. Though one is broken, measurements may be made from 

 both as follows : 32.7 X 27.3 and 32.6 X 26.5 mm. 



There is a study skin of this race in the British Museum (Natural 

 History) from the Salvin-Godman collection with the data "Guate- 

 mala (McLeannan)," cited in this same form by Sharpe (Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., vol. 23, 1894, p. 88), in which either the locality or the 

 collector is in error, since McLeannan worked only in Panama. 



ARAMIDES CAJANEA (Miiller): Gray-necked Wood Rail; Cocaleca Gris 



Figure 56 



Large size, gray head and neck, brown breast, and black abdomen 

 mark this species. 



Description. — Length 325 to 350 mm. Adults (sexes alike), head 

 and neck gray, brownish on the crown; throat white to light gray; 

 upper back and scapulars olive-green ; breast, sides, and wings cin- 

 namon-brown ; lower back, rump, tail, flanks, and abdomen black ; 

 tibia dark, somewhat brownish, gray; under wing coverts cinnamon 

 barred with black. 



Downy young, head, foreneck, and upper breast sayal brown, with 

 an indefinite line of deep mouse gray extending up the upper breast 

 onto the foreneck; hind neck, wings, and rest of body, dull black, 

 somewhat brownish black on under surface. 



