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3. Aramides axillaris. 



Ortvgarcluis mangle {nee Spix), Cab. in Schomh. Beis. Brit. Guiana, 

 ii'i. p. 760 (1848)*. 



Aramides axillaris, Later. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1863, p. 107 (Bar- 

 raiiquilla, New Granada) ; Sel. ^ Salt-. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 449 

 (Belize); Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 60, no. 10427 (1871) ; Sel. %■ 

 Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 139 (1873) ; Laxvr. Mem. Bust. Soc. 

 N. H. ii. p. 311 (1874: Mazatlan) ; Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 327 

 (N. Yucatan) ; Boiieard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 462 ; Salcin, Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 176. 



? Ortygarclnis ruticollis {nee Sjjix), Licht. Nomencl. p. 96 (1854: 

 Guiana, Venezuela). 



Ortygarclius axillaris, Heine Sf Beichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 320 

 (1890: Guiana ; Puerto Cabello). 



Adult female. General colour above greenish olive; scapulars 

 like the back ; lower back and ramp brownish black ; upper tail- 

 coverts black ; wing-coverts olive like the back ; bastard-wing 

 rufous, inclining to olive at the ends ; primary-coverts olive, slightly 

 washed with rufous at the base ; quills light chestnut or bay for 

 the basal part, olive for the terminal part ; secondaries olive 

 like the back; tail-feathers black ; crown of head, hind neck, and 

 sides of the face rather paler chestnut ; throat white tinged with 

 rufous ; the mantle and lower hind neck blui"sh grey, forming a 

 distinct triangular patch ; sides of neck and under surface of body 

 bright chestnut; lower abdomen ashy grey; lower flanks black 

 like the under tail-coverts ; thighs dark slate-colour ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries blackish, barred with white nr rufous ; quill- 

 lining pale chestnut: "bill green, j-ellowish at base; feet vinous 

 red ; eyelids and iris red " (Leotaud). Total length 12-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-6, wing 6-9, tail 2-2, tarsus 2-15, middle toe and claw 



Sexes alike {Lfotcmd). 



Young. Upper part of the head and nape dull brown ; on the 

 upper back an indication of the blue-grey patch of the adult, but 

 only feebly developed ; remainder of mantle and back olive-brown ; 

 rump blackish ; throat and cheeks dirty white ; remainder of undcr- 

 jiarts dull dark grey, slightly washed with rufous : " iris very pule 

 red " {Leoicmd). 



Hah. Colombia to Venezuela, Trinidad, and British Guiana. 

 Re-occurring in Central America, from Honduras to Yucatan and 

 Mazatlan. 



a. c? ad. sk. Venezuela {Spenee). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. Ad. St. Venezuela. Old Coll. 



* Dr. Reichenow has very kindly compared Schombiirgk's specimen in the 

 Berlin Museum tor me, and there is no doubt that it is A. axil'uris, thus con- 

 firmine; the surmise of Messrs. Sclater and Salvin. 



