P.N.E.Z.C. 



96 BANGS — AMERICAN GALLINULE L VoLV 



Gallinula chloropus pauxilla subsp. nov. 



Type, from Guabinas, Rio Cauca, western Colombia, no. 23,622, Bangs 

 Collection, coll. M. C. Z., 9 adult, collected Jan. 17, 1908, by M. G. 

 Palmer. 



Ratige. — Western Colombia. Probably extending into western Vene- 

 zuela, northwestern Brazil and Ecuador. Exact limits of range not known. 



Characters. — Size very small, smallest of American forms. 



Colors, as in G. chloropus galeata, i. e., upper parts including wings but 

 little suffused with brownish, and the brown color pale and dull,^ 

 'deep olive' to 'olive brown.' 



MEASUREMENTS (in millimeters). 



Remarks. — This is a small northern form of G. c. galeata, very 

 Hke it in color, with the bill and tarsus not appreciably diflerent, 

 but with much shorter wing and tail. I know it only from five 

 fully adult specimens collected on the Rio Cauca by M. G. Palmer, 

 and received through W. F. H. Rosenberg of London. 



Gallinula chloropus cachinnans subsp. nov. 



Type, from Arbuckle Creek, De Soto Co., Florida, no. 55,538, M. C. Z., 

 d' adult, collected March 27, 1893, by Wm. H. Phelps. 



Range. — North temperate eastern and central North America, south to 

 Nicaragua, and as a rare straggler to Costa Rica; Bermudas; Greater 

 Antilles; northern Lesser Antilles, south to Guadeloupe; Bahamas, rare 

 and local; an isolated colony in California, another at Cape San Lucas; 

 Galapagos. (See also: Cooke, Bull. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, no. 128, 

 Sept. 25, 1914, p. 40, and accompanying map.) 



