AKAMIDE9. 67 



Key to the Species. 



A. Cvown of head pale chestnut ; throat white 



tinged with rufous ; fore-neck chestnut ; 



axillaries hkckish barred with white A. axillaris, p. 67. 



B. Crown of head dusky grey ; throat white with 



no rufous tinge ; fore-neck grey ; axillaries 



rufous barred with black A. cajanea. p. GS. 



35. Aramides axillaris. 

 Venezuelan Wood-Rail. 



Aramides axillaris Lawi'. Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Philad. 1S63, p. 107 

 (Barranquilla, Xew Granada) ; Salvin, Ibis. 1880, p. 176 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii. p. .56, 1894. ; Brabom-ne & Chubb, B. S. 

 Amer. i. p. 23, no. 228, 1912. 



OrtygarcliHS mangli (nee Sjiix), Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. 

 p. 760, 1848. 



Immature. Head, sides of face, throat, and sides of neck pale 

 rufous tinged with dusky brown on the crown of the head ; hind- 

 neck and upper mantle grey ; upper wing-coverts, middle of 

 back, and innermost secondaries olive-brown ; lower back, rump, 

 and tail dull black ; bastard-wing and primary-quills bright 

 chestnut, more or less olive at the tips ; under surface, including 

 the thighs, dusky grey with rufous feathers appearing on the breast 

 and abdomen ; axillaries and under wing-coverts blackish barred 

 with white ; under tail-coverts like the tail. " Bill green, yellowish 

 at base ; feet vinous red ; eyelids and iris red." 



Total length 320 mm., cuhnen 3G, wing 173, tail .55, tarsus 58, 

 middle toe and claw 52. 



The innnature bird described was collected at Bartica. 



Adult female. Head and neck all round, as also the breast, 

 chestnut; paler and inclining to white on the throat ; lower hind- 

 neck and mantle slate-grey; back, scapulars, upper wing-coverts, 

 and innermost secondaries olive ; primary-coverts and quills 

 chestnut tipped with olive ; lower back and upper tail-coverrs 

 sooty -brown ; tail black ; flanks and under tail-coverts blackish ; 

 tliighs and vent dusky brown; under wing-coverts blackish barred 

 with white ; axillaries similar tinged with rufous at the tips. 



Total length 310 mm., culnicn 11, wing 1<S0, tail 58, tarsus 55, 

 middle toe and claw 55. 



The description of the female is taken from an exam{)io in the 

 BritLsh Museum, collected in Venezuela by Spence — Salviu- 



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