54 EALLID^. 



Key to the Species. 



a Quill-lininp: rufous. 



a. Breast chestnut, or vinous, or ruddy brown. 



a" . No gi'ey on the throat or fore neck. 



a". Crowu of head and hind neck grey. 



a'. Smaller ; tar.sus 2 inches : under 



surface light rufous ; tliighs pale 



ashy; under wing - coverts black, 



with some white and rufous cross 



bars ; abdomen ashy mangle, p. o4. 



5'. I^arger ; tar.sus 2'8 inches : under 

 surface ruddy brown, washed with 

 olive ; fore neck dusky vinous ; 

 thighs reddish brown or slaty 

 black ; under wing-coverts chest- 

 nut, with a few black bars ; abdo- 

 men black wolfi, p. 55. 



V" . Crown of head and hind neck rufous : 

 mantle clear bluish grey ; throat and 

 breast chestnut; under wing-coverts 



blackish, with white liars axillaris, p. i3(i. 



h" . With grey on the throat and fore neck. 

 c'" . Chin and upper throat white; lower 

 throat only blue - grey ; fore neck 



chestnut like the breast f/nfliiralis, p. 57. 



d'" . Throat white ; fore neck grey. 



c'. Smaller: breast orange - rufous or 



chestnut; abdomen and vent dusky [pp. 57 59. 



blackish cayanea and allies, 



d^. Larger : breast pale vinous ; lower 



abdomen and veut pearly grey .... ypavuhu, p. (iO. 

 //. Under smi': ice entirely .slaty grey ; throat 



white ; no rufous on breast snracura, p. 61. 



h. Quill-lining not rufous ; under wing-coverts 



black, broadly tipped with white cullopterus, p. 62. 



1. Ar amides mangle. 



Gallinula mangle, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 74, Taf. 97 (1825). 

 "Rallus mangle, pt., Gray, List Gralke Brit. Mus. p. 115 (1844). 

 Aramides chiricote, pt.. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 594 (1846). 

 Aramides mangle, Burm. Th. Bras iii. p. 385, note (1856) ; Sri. Sf 



Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 449 (Bahia) ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 60, 



no. 10421"; (1871) : Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 816 (1871 : Sapitiba): Scl. 



Sf Salv. Nomejicl. Ar. Neotr. p. 139 (1873). 

 Aramides ruficollis, B}). C. B. xliii. p. 598 (1856, pt.) ; Sc/il. 3lm. 



Puys-Bas, Ralli, p. 15 (1865). 



Adult. General colour above olive ; scapulars like the back ; 

 lower back and rump chocolate-brown, becoming black on the 

 upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts olive like the back ; bastard-wiug 

 feathers rufous, with dusky brown tips ; priinary-coverts olive- 

 brown, edged with rufous ; quills rufous, with dusky brown tips ; 



