AVES RALLID/E. 



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considerable growth of bushes, but not observed on the higher pampas 

 nor in the forests of the Andes." 



A single specimen of this bird from the Valle del Lago Blanco, Chubut, 

 November 5, 1901, collected by J. Koslowsky is now in the British Museum. 



Order RALLIFORMES. 



Sharpe, Hand-List Eds., I. p. 93 (1899). 



Family Rallid^. 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. XXIII. p. i (1894); id. Hand-List Bds. 

 p. 93 (1899). 



Subfamily RALLINyE. 

 Sharpe, Hand-List Bds., I. p. 93, (1899). 



Genus RALLUS Linnaeus. 



Rallns, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 261 (1766) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXIII. p. 6 (1894) 

 id. Hand-List Bds. I. p. 93 (1899) . . . 

 Bieiisis, Pucher. Rev. Zool. p. 278 (1845) • • 

 Lininopaydalis (nee Cab.), Heine & Reichen 

 Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 320 (1890) . . 



Type. 



R. aquaticiis. 



R. madagascariensis. 



R. elegans. 



Rallus antarcticus King. 



Rallns mitarcticus, King, Zool. Journ. IV. p. 95 (1828: Straits of Ma- 

 gellan) ; Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 435 (1847) ! Scl. 



