52 Mr. C. Chul)b on Birds from [Ibis, 



This specimeu, -wliicli is in full plumage and well preserved, 

 is a very welcome addition to tlie National Collection. 

 Although there were two previously in the collection, yet 

 neither of them had any information in regard to sex or 

 colour of soft parts. 



b, c. Nestlings covered entirely with soot-black down. 

 Mindo, 6OO0 ft., Jan. 1914. " Iris brown ; eyelids and skin 

 generally showing bright red through the down ; feet brown ; 

 bill reddish brown, extreme tip yellow ■'^ (JV. GoodfeUow). 



Aramides cajanea cajanea. 



Poule-d'eau de Cayenne, D*Aubent. PL Enl. ix. pi. 352. 



Fnlica cajanea P. L. S. Miiller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. 1776, 

 p. 119 ; Cayenne. 



FuJica major Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783, p. 21. 



Cayenne Gallinule, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, 1785, 

 p. 253 : Cayenne. 



FuHca cayennensis Grael. Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 700 ; Cayenne. 



Rallus maximus Vieillot, N. Diet. d^Hist. Nat. xxviii. 1819, 

 p. 555 : Cayenne. 



Aramides cayanea Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii. 1894, 

 p. 57 (part, specimens c, d, e) : Maroni river, Surinam, and 

 Bartica Grove, British Guiana. 



This species was originally described by Miiller from 

 Cayenne under the title quoted from his work, and by 

 various other authors since, under different names, also from 

 the same place. It is chiefly characterized by having the 

 back rufous-brown, the rump and upper tail-coverts deep 

 black, neck all round dark slate-grey, the abdomen chestnut, 

 and the thighs dusky grey. 



Tlie distribution appears to be, from material examined 

 in the British Museum and McConnell collections, French, 

 Dutch, and British Guianas, and Venezuela. 



I am of opinion, however, that this species, which has 

 hitherto been supposed to occur throughout South America 

 to Panama, is easily separable into three subspeciHc forms. 



There is an example from Para which has been associated 

 with the Guiana bird, but it is much deeper in colour both 

 above and below, and I am inclined to think that with more 



