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Adult male.— Wmg 68-77 (72.4) ; tail 29.5-37 (33.7) ; exposed 

 culmen 15-17 (16.1) ; tarsus 21.5-25 (23.5) ; middle toe without claw 

 26-29.t. ,27.2inm.).»^ 



Adult fenude.—Wmg 71-73 (72.3) ; tail 31-34 (32.5) ; exposed 

 culmen 14-15.5 (14.8) ; tarsus 22.5-23 (22.8) ; middle toe without 

 claw 25-25.5 (25.3 mm.)."" 



Range.— Resident in Honduras (SegoYia Kiver) and Nicaragua 

 (Escondido Eiver) and in northern South America— Colombia 

 (Guajaro Lagoon, La Pena), Trinidad; and Venezuela (Merida) ; to 

 British Guiana (Bonsika River, Abary River) ; Dutch Guiana 

 (Maroni River) ; French Guiana (Cayeime) ; to Ecuador (Esmer- 

 aldas) and eastern Peru (Nauta and Ucayali River) ; and northern 

 Brazil (Amazonia; Teffe, Rio Solimoes; Rio Negro; Marabitanas: 

 Para). Not yet recorded between Nicaragua and Colombia. 



Type locality. — Cayenne. 



OalUnula ruficolUs Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1837, 349 (America). 



Oirtygometra\ ciiierea Geay, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 593. 



Ortygometra cinerea Iskofixuv, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 495 (Trinidad). 



Porzana cinerea (not of Schlegel, 1865), Sclater and Saivin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, 1868, 456; 1873, 308 (TJcayali, Peru ) .— Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1871, 



317 (Marabitanas, Brazil). — TACzANOwsia, Orn. P6rou, iii, 1886, 322 



(Ucayali). — Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, vl, 1894, 79 (Trinidad). 



IPorzana] cinerea Sclateb and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 140. 



[Aramidesl cinerea Geat, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 61, No. 10447. 



Rallus exilis Temminck, PI. Col., v, 1831, pi. 523 and text. — Lesson, Trait<5 d'Orn., 

 1831, 538. 



[Later irallus] exilis BoNAPAErE, Compt. Bend., xliii, 1856, 599. 



Porzana exilis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas. v, No. 30, livr. 7, 1865, 35. — Sclater and 

 Saivin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, 567 (Rio Ucayali, e. Peru). 



Creciscus exilis Shabpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiii, 1894, 138 (Trinidad ; Cay- 

 enne; Maroni River, Surinam; Nauta, e. Peru). — Saxvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 323 (crit. ; distr.). — Be3jlepsch, Nov. Zool., sv, 

 1908, 299 (Cayenne).— Chubb, Birds British Guiana, i, 1916, 76.— Snethlage, 

 Bol. Mus. Goeldi, vjii, 1914, 72 (Para, Brazil). 



C[reoiscus'\ exilis Penard (F. P. and A. P.), Vogels van Guyana, i, 1908, 209 

 (Amazonia, the Guianas, and Trinidad). 



[Creciscus'] exilis Iheeing (H. and R.), Aves Brazil, 1907, 30 (Amazonia; Rio 

 Negro; Para ) .— Bracoubne and Chubb, Birds South America, i, 1912, 24 

 (Peru; Amazonia; Guiana; Trinidad). 



Creciscus exilis exilis Hellmatb, Nov. Zool., xiv, 1907, 90 (Teff^, Brazil; crit.). 



Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Iv, 1926, 177 (Esmeraldas, Ecuador, 

 specimen; also refers to another specimen from Manaos, Brazil). — Naum- 

 BURG, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ix, 1930, 73 (Brazil— Rio Negro, Marabi- 

 tanas, Teff^, Rio Solimoes, Pard; also Guiana, Trinidad; Peru). 

 Laterallus exilis exilis Petees, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 190. — Belches 

 and Smookee, Ibis, 1935, 284 (Trinidad; breeds; nest and eggs described). 



"^ Seven specimens from Brazil, Nicaragua, and Honduras, including the type 

 of L. e. vagans (Ridgway). 

 *■ Three specimens from Brazil. 



