1. RALLUS. 11 



liullus crepitans (nee (Jm.), Cub. in Schomb. Reis. Ouian. iii. p. 7(50 



(1848). 

 Aramus Ionf:firostris, Grmj, Iland-l. B. iii. p. 59, no. 10418 (1871). 

 llallus cvpereti, Taez. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 747 ; id. Orn. Ferou, iii. 



p. ;51.5"( 188(5). 

 Liuano])ardalis longirostris, Heine ^- Reichen. Nomencl. Mns. Heiti. 



p. 320 (18U0). 



Advlt, General colour above ashy olive, the feathers longitu- 

 dinally centred with blackish brown ; scapulars like the back ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts more uniform ashy olive, 

 the blackish centres to the feathers not so strongly marked; wing- 

 coverts more olive-brown, uniform, except for blackish shaft-lines ; 

 the outer median and greater coverts with a ruddy tinge externally ; 

 bastard-wing externally edged with rufous ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dark sepia-brown, edged with olive-brown ; the innermost 

 secondaries broadly edged with ashj' olive like the back ; tail- 

 feathers ashy brown, broadly centred with blackish ; crown of head 

 slightly browner than the back, with darker longitudinal centres, 

 but not so distinctly indicated as on the back ; below the eye a 

 wliitish spot ; lores and sides of face ashy, with a slight shade of 

 reddish on the ear-coverts ; above the lores a streak of vinous ; 

 cheeks isabelline like the lower throat, chest, and upper breast ; 

 chin and upper throat white ; lower breast and centre of abdomen 

 white, tinged with isabelline ; sides of body and flanks barred with 

 ashy brown and white, the brown bars being the widest ; thighs 

 uniform ashy, isabelline on the inner face ; under tail-coverts white, 

 the basal ones freckled with spots and bars of dusky ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries dusky brown, barred across with white : 

 " bill horny brown, the lower mandible reddish brown for nearly 

 the basal half, as well as the edge of the upper mandible ; tarsus 

 pale orange-yellow in front, brownish grey behind ; the rest of the 

 feet brown, the toes clearer brown, inclining to fleshy ; iris sienna- 

 brown, greyish round the pupil" {J. Stolzmann). Total length 

 10-5 inches, culmen I'So, wing 5, tail l'7o, tarsus 1-6, middle toe 

 and claw 2. 



Hah. Guiana, probably through the Oronoco region, to Western 

 Peru, 



a. Ad. sk. r.erbico, Guiana. J. J. Quelch, Esq. [R]. 



6. (S ad. sk. Santa Lucia, Tumboz, W. Peru Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 (^Stolzmann). 



Subsp. a. Rallus crassirostris. 



llallus longirostris (nee Gm.), Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 381 (18o(5: 



Bahia) ; Pvlz. Orn. Bras. p. 458 (1871) ; Furbes,Ibt8, 1881, p. '66S 



(Pernambuco). 

 Rallus crassirostris, Lawr. Ann. Luc. N. Y. x. pp. 19, 20 (1869 : 



Bahia). 

 Kallus longirostris, pt., Baird Brewer, ^- Ridyic. Wuter-B. N. 



Amer. i. p. 358 (1884). 



