58 p>allid.t:. 



Fulica cayennensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 700 (1788; ex Lath.). 

 Gallinula cayennensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 767 (1790). 

 Rallus ruticeps, pt., Gray, List Gvallce Brit. Mus. p. 115 (1844). 

 Aramides cayennensis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. o94 (1846) ; Geof. St.- 



Hilaire, Bull. Soc. Acdim. (2) vii. p. 139 (1870); Pelh. Ibis, 



1873, p. 122 (Cayenne) ; Scl. if Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 447 (pt.) ; 



iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 139 (1873, pt.) ; iid. F. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 54o (Antioqiiia) ; Berl. Ibis, 1884, p. 440 (Angostura) : Salv. 



Ibis, 188(3, p. 176 ; Meyer, Abbild. Voyel-Sk. pi. Ixxiv. (1885). 

 Ortysrarchus cayennensis. Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 759 



(1848) ; Hei7w ^ Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 320 (1890 : 



Santa Marta; Puerto Cabello). 

 Aramides maximiis, Sehl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Raili, p. 14 (1865). 

 Aramides cayanea, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 60, no. 10425 (1871). 



Adult male. General colour above olive, greenish on the back 

 and scapulars and browner on the lower back ; rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and tail black ; lesser wing-coverts olive-greenish like the 

 back ; remainder of wing chestnut, with dusky tips to the primary- 

 coverfcs and quills ; the greater coverts and inner secondaries 

 externally washed with olive, the innermost secondaries dark 

 greenish olive with black shaft-streaks ; crown of head dusky slate- 

 colour, lighter on the hind neck, the grey extending on to the 

 upper mantle ; sides of face ashy grey, becoming lighter and purer 

 grey on the cheeks, sides of the neck, and on the fore neck ; throat 

 white ; remainder of under surface from the fore neck downwards 

 orange-chestnut ; the abdomen, lower flanks, and under tail-coverts 

 black ; thighs slat)' grey ; under wing-coveits and asillaries rufous, 

 barred across with black. Total length lO^o inches, culmen 2'1, 

 wing 7"2, tail 26, tarsus 2"75, middle toe and claw 2'5. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but with the abdo- 

 men a little more rufous (? a sign of immaturity). Total length 

 13*5 inches, culmen 2, wing 6'7, tail 2-2, tarsus 2-7, middle toe 

 and claw 2-2. 



Ilah. Colombia and British Guiana to Northern Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. South America. 



b. r^ ad. sk. Eemedios, Antioquia, U. S. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Colombia (7". K. Salmon). 



c. Ad. sk. Maroni River, Surinam Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Xappler). 

 d.e. c? $ ad. sli. Bartica Grove, British Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Jan. (H. Whifely). 

 f. 5 ad. sk,* Rio de Boraxudo, Brazil, Salvin-Godman Coll 



Dec. 24 (J. Natterer). 

 (J. Skeleton. Purchased. 



Subsp. a. Aramides chiricote. 



Chiricote, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 214 (1802). 



Rallus chiricote, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvili. p. 551 (1819). 



* I am not quite satisfied that this speciraeu belongs here. It is ashy grey 

 above, and the rufous colour oi' the under surface is also very pale. 



