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6. Size very small, wings 161 mm. or less in length. 



Gallinula cMoropus pauxilla (extralimital)" 

 66. Size larger, wings over 165 mm. 



c. Whole back, rump, and most of upper wing coverts extensively suffused 



with brown (argus brown to raw umber) • 



Gallinula cMoropus cachinnans (p. 184) 

 cc. Bacli and wings only slightly suffused with brownish. 



d. Tarsus longer, over 55 mm Gallinula chloropus cerceris (p. 190) 



M. Tarsus shorter, under 55 mm 



Gallinula chloropus galeata (t-xtralimital) ™ 



"Gallinula chloropus pauxilla. — (?) Gallinula galeata (not Crex {faleata 

 liichtenstein ?) ; Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1874, 559 (Chorillos 

 and Junin, Peru) ; Cm. PSrou, iii, 1886, 327, part. ? ; Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1878, 176 (Laguna de Tambo, w. Peru), 462, part (mongr.), 

 570 (w. Peru) ; Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1874, 559 (Chorillos and 

 Junin, Peru) ; Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1892, 399 

 (Lima and Callao, w, Peru) ; 1902, 50 (Ingaplra, Peru) ; Salvador! and Festa, 

 Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino, xv, 1900, 40 (Vinces, w. Ecuad6r) ; (?) Chubb, Ibis, 

 1919, 54 (Bten and Trujillo, nw. Peru; Eeque, Lambayeque, Peru; crit.) ; 

 (?) Lonnberg and Eendahl, Arkiv for Zool., xiv, No. 25, 1922, 19 (La Carolina, 

 near Quito, and Lake San Pablo, prov. Imbabura, 8,000 feet, Ecuador). — Oal- 

 Unula chloropus pauxilla Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, v, 1915, 96 

 (Guabinas, Kio Cauca, Colombia; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.); Chapman, BuU. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., sxxvi, 1917, 219 (Call, Cauca Valley, Colombia; crit.) ; 

 Hartert, Nov. Zool., xxii, 1917, 269 (crit.) ; Peters, Check-Ust Birds of World, 

 ii, 1934, 205.— Wetmoee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxvii, 1939, 190 (n. Venezuela). 



" Gallinula chloropus galeata. — [Fulica'\ chloropus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 

 12, i, 1766, 258, part (not of ed. 10, 1758) ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 698, 

 part; IGallinula'] chloropus Latham, Synop. Birds, Suppl., i, 1787, 293, part; 

 Index Orn., ii, 1790, 770, part. — C{rev'\ galeata Lichtenstein, Saug. and Vog. Mus. 

 Berlin, 1818, 36 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil; cites "Pulica cMor[opus'i Amer. Merid. 

 Gmel[in] ; Gall[inula] chlorlopus] Amer. Merid. Lath [am] ; Yahania propre- 

 mentadit Azara") ; Verz. Doubl., 1823, 80 (Sao Paulo). — Gallinula fusca Vieillot, 

 Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xiii, 1817, 404, part ("America"). — Giallinula'i galeata 

 Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Keis. Britisch-Guiana, iii, 1848, 760. — Gallinula galeata 

 Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Thiere Bras., iii, 1856, 389; Journ. fijr Orn., 1860, 262 

 (Parana, Argentina) ; L^otaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 503; Buler, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1867, 197 (Brazil; descr. nest and eggs); Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 318, 459; 

 Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 462, part (monogr.) ; White, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1882, 627 (Buenos Aires, Argentina) ; Barrows, Auk, 

 1, 1884, 277 (Concepclon, Uruguay, resident) ; Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1886, 177 (Brit. Guiana) ; Bci-lepsch, Journ, fur Orn., 1887, 125 (Paraguay) ; 

 Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, 300 (Brit. Guiana) ; Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vi, 1894, 78 (Trinidad) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 177, part 

 (Caicarfi, Brazil; Trinidad; Lunia Bridge, Argentina); Aplin, Ibis, 1894, 204 

 (Rio Mongon, Uruguay) ; Koenigswald, Journ. ffir Orn., 1896, 393 (Sao Paulo, 

 Brazil) ; Salvador!, Boll. Mus. Zool., Torino, xii, 1897, 34 (San Lorenzo, Argen- 

 tina) ; Hohnberg, Sectindo Cent. Argentina, 1898, 571; Ihering, Rev. Mus. 

 Paulista, iii, 1899, 417 (Sao Paulo) ; iv, 1900, 164 (Cantogallo, Sao Paulo) ; vi, 

 1904, 343 (Paraguay; (?) Lonnberg, Ibis, 1903, 459 (Tatarenda, Bolivia); 

 Reiser, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., 1910, 96 (Joazeiro, ne. 

 Brazil); Dabbene, Orn. Argentina, 1910, 196 (Tacumdn; Ocampo, Chaco; 



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