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coverts, and sides of neck bright chestnut; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail coverts chocolate-brown to clove brown; inner middle 

 and all the greater upper wing coverts bone brown, externally 

 washed or edges with chestnut; scapulars and inner secondaries 

 clove brown with a sepia tinge; outer secondaries and the primaries 

 clove brown with a dull olive-brown gloss; rectrices chaetura drab 

 to fuscous black ; entire underparts cinnamon very heavily suffused 

 with deep chestnut on the sides, flanks, thighs, vent, and under tail 

 coverts which are almost as richly colored as the upper back, the 

 breast also but much less heavily washed with chestnut, chin palest, 

 in some specimens light pinkish cinnamon to almost white; under 

 wing coverts dusky clove brown broadly edged with cinnamon; 

 iris reddish brown; bill dull black; tarsi and toes olive-green. 



Other plumages unknown. 



Adult male.— Wing 73.5-84.5 (78.1) ; tail 28-36 (31.2) ; exposed 

 culmen 18-21.5 (20.2) ; tarsus 30.5-35 (32.6) ; middle toe without 

 claw 30-35 (31.7 nmi.).«» 



Adult females: Wing 70.5-80 (76.3) ; tail 27-32.5 (30.3) ; exposed 

 cuhnen 17.5-21.5 (19.6) ; tarsus 29-32 (30.8) ; middle toe without claw 

 28-32.5 (30.5 mm.)." 



Range. — Resident in marshy areas in the tropical zone from Yuca- 

 tan (Xbac ?, Cozumel Island); and Guatemala (Dueiias; Coban; 

 Choctum ; Vera Paz ; Chama ; Laguna del Soto and Laguna Perdida, 

 Peten; Secanquin; Chimoxan; Quirigua; Finca Concepcion; Lake 

 Amatitlan) ; to British Honduras (Belize; Manatee district; Toledo 

 district) ; and Honduras (Lancetilla and Laguna Tolva). 



Type locality. — Vera Paz, Guatemala. 



Coretlirura rubra SciATEa; and Sai-yin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860, 300 (Vera 

 Paz, Guatemala; coll. O. Salvin).— Salvin and Sclatee, Ibis, 1860, 277 

 (Dueflas, Guatemala). 



Porzana rubra Sclatee and Salvin, Exotic Orn., 1867, 31, pi. 16 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1808, 452 (monogr.). — Salvin, Ibis, 1889, 378 (Cozumel Island, Yuca- 

 tan) ; 1890, 89 (Yucatan).— Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 31 

 (range). 



[Poraorao] rubra Soiatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 139. 



[Aramides] rubra Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 60, No. 10434. 



Rufirallus rubrus Boucabd, Liste Ois.-r6col. Guatemala, 1878, 12 (Vera Paz). 



Creciscus ruber Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiii, 1894, 143 (Cozumel Island; 

 British Honduras; Coban, Choctum, Lake of Duenas, and Vera Paz, Guate- 

 mala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1003, 326 (same 

 localities).— Cole, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1, 1906, 146 (Xbac ?, Yucatan).— 

 MiLLEE (W. deW.), Am. Mus. Nov., No. 25, 1921, 2 (Mexico; Guatemala). 



[Creciscus] ruber Shaepe, Hand-list, 1, 1899, 105. 



"Twelve specimens from Guatemala, Honduras, and British Honduras. 

 *" yix specimens from Guatemala and Honduras. 



