28 RALLID^. 



b. No white spots or bars on the under surface 



and no white streaks on the upper surface. 



a'. With a brijjht red spot at the base of the 



lower mandible (sometimes obsolete in 



young birds). 



a' . Scapulars and lower back mottled with 



blackish bases to the feathers rytirhynchus, p. 29. 



b". Upper surface uniform olive-brown . . sati(/umolentus, p. 30. 

 b'. Red spot at base of lower mandible in- 

 conspicuous or absent altogether. 

 c". Larger : deep chocolate-brown above ; 

 throat grey like the rest of the under 

 surface ; tail blackish, washed with 



bi-own ; vif/ilantis, p. 31. 



d" . iSuialler : throat white ; tail black. . . . nir/ricans, p. 31. 



1. Limnopardalus maciilatus. 



Le Rale tachete de Cayenne, Dauhent. PL Enl. ix. pi. 775 ; Buff. 



Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 164 (1781). 

 Kallus maculatus, Bodd. Tabl. PL EnL p. 48 (1783) ; SchUff. Mus. 



Puys-Bas, Italh, p. 13 (1865; ; ScL ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 18tj8, p. 444 : 



Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 315, note (1871 : Cayenne) & p. 458; Sd. <^ 



Salv. NomencL Av. Keofrop. p. 1.39 (1873) ; Pelz. Ibis, 1873, 



p. 122 ; Dzinif. Ibis, 1878, p. 65 (Buenos Avres) ; Barroics, Auk, 



i. p. 276 (1884 : Uruguay) ; Bed. J. f. O. 1887, p. 1.33 (Paraguay) ; 



Withinffto7t, Ibis, 1888, p. 471 (Lomas de Zamora) : Cory, B. W. 



hid. p. 253 (1889) ; 8cL S^- Hudson, Argent. Or». ii. p. 148, pi. xix. 



(1889) ; Holland, Ibis, 1892, p. 209 (Argentina). 

 Variegated Rail, Lath. Gen. Si/n. iii. pt. 1, p. 327 (1785). 

 Railus variegatus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 718 (^1788) ; D^ Orb. in Rccmon 



de la Sagra, Hist. Not. Cuba, Ois. p. 180 ^1838) ; Bunn. Th. Bras. 



iii. p. 382 (1856) ; Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. vii. p. 308 



(1861: Cuba). 

 Ypacaha jaspeado todo, Azara, Apimf. iii. p. 217 (1806). 

 Railus nivosus, Sivaiiis. An. in Menay. p. 361 (1837). 

 Aramides maculatus. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 694 (1846) ; Hartl. Ind. 



Azara, p. 23 (1847). 

 Porzana vaiiegata, Reichenb. Hu7idb., Fidicarice, Taf. cxviii. iig. 1175 



(1851). 

 Limnopardalus variegatus. Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 428; Giindl. Orn. 



Cuba, p. 361 (1866) ; id. J. f. O. 1875, p. 357 ; id. Orn. Cuba, 



p. 299 (1876). 

 Pardirallus variegatus, Bj}. C. H. xHii. p. 599 (1856). 

 Aramus maculatus, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 59, no. 10416 (1871). 



Adult. General colour above brown, mottled with black centres 

 and white edges to the feathers ; scapulars like the back ; lower back 

 and rump more uniform brown, mottled with blackish centres to the 

 feathers, -^ hich have only a few white spots ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with brown, with a few white spots on 

 the former ; wing-coverts more uniform brown, with a few broken 

 spots of white on the edge, these spots with subtermiual bars of 

 black ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown ; inner 



