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Creciscus sharpei Rothschild and Hakteet, Nov. Zool., vi, 1S99, 185 (Inde- 

 fatigable Island, Galapagos Archipelago; coll. Tring Mus.) ; ix, 1902, 412 

 (Indefatigable and Narborough Islands; habits; crit.). — Habtkkt, Nov. 

 Zool., xxxiv, 1927, 24 (type spec. ; crit.). 



C [reoiscus'i sharpei Rothschild and Haetert, Nov. Zool., vi, 1899, 203 (Inde- 

 fatigable Island). 



[GreoisousJ sharpei Rothschild and Haetert, Nov. Zool., ix, 1902, 418 (Inde- 

 fatigable Island). 



Porzana sharpei Snodgeass and HiaxEB, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., v, 1904, 

 256 (Indefatigable and Narborough Islands; measurements). 



Porzana spilonoia sharpei Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xlviii, 1928, 124 

 (Galapagos Islands, except James Island). 



LATERALLUS EXILIS (Temminck) 



Temminck's Rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Forehead, crown, and cheeks dark neutral 

 gray, paling to neutral gray on the lores and auriculars ; occiput, hind 

 neck, and anterior interscapulars bright chestnut; posterior inter- 

 scapulars, scapulars, upper wing coverts, and upper back raw lunber, 

 a varying number of the coverts and even of the outer scapulars 

 crossed by very fine white bars ; remiges dull, dark sepia ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts clove brovra ; the back and rump feath- 

 ers narrowly barred with whitish ; rectrices dark clove brown ; chin 

 and median upper throat dull white, becoming grayish posteriorly 

 and laterally ; sides -of neck and whole of breast neutral gray, paling 

 on middle of breast to pale neutral gray ; middle of abdomen plain 

 white; sides, axillars, flanks, thighs, vent, and under tail coverts 

 barred black and white, the dark and light bars about equally wida 

 (1-1.5 mm.) ; under wing coverts dirty white indistinctly barred with 

 grayish drab; iris crimson; eyelid clay color; bill chromium green 

 at base, plumbeous on lower mandible, and duskier on upper man- 

 dible ; tarsi and toes raw umber. 



Juvenal female (male not seen, but probably similar). — Like the 

 adult but without the chestnut color on the occiput, hind neck, and 

 anterior interscapulars, which are dark grayish raw umber, with a 

 few deep castaneous feathers here and there, especially among the 

 anterior interscapulars.^ 



Natal down. — Said to be blackish (none seen in connection with 

 the present writing). 



■* According to Salvin and Godman (Biol.-Centr.-Amer, Aves, iii, 1903, 324) 

 the young is similar to the adult but has most of the upper wing coverts 

 banded with white. The character of the fine white bands on the upper 

 wing coverts is a very variable feature of specimens that cannot be called 

 anything but adults, while in the definitely immature female described above 

 no such bands occur. It would seem, therefore, that Salvin and Godman did 

 not have a young bird when they wrote. 



