138 RALLID^. 



character is not easily explained as a sign of age or sex, but it is 

 probable that the white spots disappear with age, as they vary in 

 number in all the specimens in the Museum. The type specimen 

 seems not to have been transferred with the rest of the Zoological 

 Society's Collection. 



Bah. James and Indefatigable Islands in the Galapagos Archi- 

 pelago. 



a-c. S ad.; d. $ Indefatigable Island, Oct. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. {Dr. A. Hubel). 



e. Juv. sk. [Galapagos.] Purchased. 



4. Creciscus exilis. 



Ralliis cinereus (nee Porphvrio cinereus, Vieill.,=V. cinerea, stipru, 



p. 130), Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. IS/af. xxviii. p. 556 (1819). 

 Rallus exilis, Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 523 (1831). 

 Gallinula ruficollis, Sicains. An. in. Menay. p. 349 (1837). 

 Ortygometra cinerea, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 693 (1846) ; l,eot. Ots. 



trinid. p. 495 (1866). 

 Laterirallus exilis, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 699 (1856). 

 Porzana exihs, Schl. Mux. Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 35 (1865 : Guiana) ; 



8cl. i^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 567 (Ucayali). 

 Porzana cinerea, Scl. Sr Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 456 : Peh. Oni. Brax. 



p. 317 (1871) ; Sd. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 14U ; iid. P. Z. S. 



1873, p. 308 ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 322 (1886). 

 Aramides cinerea, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 61, no. 10447 (1871). 



Adult male. General colour above chocolate-brown, including the 

 scapulars and wing-coverts ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills dusky brown, edged with ashy brown, the inner secondaries 

 chocolate-brown like the back ; rump and upper tail-coverts black, 

 narrowly barred with white ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with 

 chocolate-brown ; crown of head slaty grey ; nape and hind neck 

 maroon-chestnut : a narrow supraloral streak of whitish ; sides of 

 face ash}' grey ; throat, fore neck, and centre of chest white, 

 slightly overshaded with grey on the fore neck ; the sides of the 

 neck and of the upper breast bluish grey ; rest of under surface of 

 body barred with black and white, broadly on the sides of the breast 

 and more narrowly on the flanks and under tail-coverts, the latter 

 tinged with rufous ; under wing-coverts wliite, mottled with dusky 

 bases to the feathers ; axillaries bai'red with black and white ; 

 quills ashy brown below : " bill black, with a greenish tinge for the 

 basal two-thirds of the lower mandible ; feet very clear brown ; 

 iris red" {Leotcmd). Total length 5*8 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 2-9, 

 tail 1'35, tarsus 1, middle toe and claw l-;35. 



Hah. Amazonia to Guiana and Trinidad. 



a. Ad. sk. America. Old Coll. 



b. Ad. St. TriDidad. Old Coll. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Cayenne. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 e,f. Ad.sk. Maroni Kiver, Surinam (Za/j/j/er). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 y. S ad. sk. Nauta, Peruvian Amazons, Jan. E. Bartlett [C.]. 



h. 5 ad. sk. Nauta, Aug. {J. Hau.vivell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



