FAMILY RALLIDjE 



Male. General color of upper parts reddish 

 chestnut, paler on the forehead, the hindneck 

 and back and sometimes the top of the head 

 faintly glossed with metallic purple; a broad 

 stripe of pinkish cinnamon through the cheeks 

 bordered below by a patch of chestnut, confluent 

 with the color of hind neck; throat light pinkish 

 cinnamon; face, neck and chest vinaceous fawn 

 color, fading to buff on abdomen. Bill red 

 tipped with dusky: legs and bare skin of face 

 purplish red. 



Female. Very different in color. Light olive 

 replacing the chestnut of upper parts of male, 

 the forehecd paler and tinged with cinnamon^ 

 sides of head to front of cheeks like forehead 

 and bordered by a patch of darker below. 



Young male. With dusky bars and terminal 

 spots of reddish brown on back, scapulars and 

 middle of quills. 



Young female. Upper parts darker and with 

 conspicuous transverse spotting on wing coverts; 

 chest grayish brown, the feathers more or less 

 distinctly tipped with cinnamon. 



A rather small species found on or near the 

 ground in heavy forest. It is very shy and re- 

 tiring. Neither Jewel nor Hallinan took it. " Cana 

 and Pablo Stations, Canal Zone " (Ridgway). 



5. Family RALLID^E 

 The Rails, Coots and Gallinules 



This is a varied assemblage of birds related 

 to the cranes and less closely to the herons, 

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