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Adult mdle.—Wmg 16&-169; tail 59; exposed culmen 52-53; tarsus 

 67, 67; middle toe without claw 47-48 mm.*^ 



Adult female.— Wmg 163-170; tail 58.5-64; exposed culmen 52, 

 52 ; tarsus 66-67.5 ; middle toe without claw 45 mm.°° 



Range. — Resident in, and restricted to, the type locality. 



Type locality. — San Miguel Island, Bay of Panama. 



Armnides eajanea chirioote (not Rallus chirioote Vieillot) Thatee and Bangs, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, xlvi, 1905, 145 (San Migtiel Island, Bay of Panama; 

 crit. ) . 



Aramides eajanea latens Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixii, 1918, 

 41 (San Migfiel Island, Bay of Panama; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.)— Bangs, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 168 (type specimen in Mus. Comp. Zool,, 

 crit.).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, il, 1934, 1T5.— Gkiscom, BuU. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxviii, 1935, 304 (Pearl Islands). 



ARAMIDES AXILLARIS Lawrence 



Rttfous-necked Wood-eah, 



Adult male. — ^Forehead, crown, occiput, nape, anterior half or more 

 of hind neck, sides of neck, the lower throat, breast, and sides of 

 upper abdomen reddish auburn to chestnut; lores, cheeks, auriculars, 

 and sides of upper throat similar but slightly paler; posterior part 

 of hind neck and interscapulars slate gray, forming a triangle with 

 the apex forward on the hind neck; upper back and scapulars olive 

 to dark greenish olive; upper wing and innermost secondaries light 

 brownish olive to buffy olive, the outermost coverts tinged with 

 russet; other secondaries dark olive-brown; primaries cinnamon- 

 rufous, darkening to dark olive-brown on the inner webs, especially 

 toward the shaft, the external margin of the inner webs more or less 

 washed with cinnamon-rufous; lower back, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts blackish faintly tinged with fuscous; the tail black; chin 

 and middle of upper throat white; middle of abdomen deep mouse 

 gray darkening to blackish mouse gray posteriorly; flanks, thighs, 

 vent, and under tail coverts blackish with a faint fuscous tinge ; under 

 wing coverts fuscous-black banded with white, those along the bend 

 of the wing with the white replaced by cinnamon-rufous; iris hazel; 

 bill grass green, its basal portion yellow ; tarsi and toes vermilion to 

 dull salmon-red. 



Adult female. — Like the adult male but with the chin and middle 

 upper throat averaging very slightly washed with pale cinnamon. 



Juvenal (only one sexed (?) and several unsexed examples seen 

 but the sexes probably alike). — Forehead, crown, and occiput dusky 

 olive-brown, becoming more grayish, less brownish, but not paler on 

 the hind neck ; posterior hind neck and interscapulars as in adult but 



""Two specimens. 



*^Two specimens, including the type. 



