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105554 yg. British Guiana. 

 16375> yg. Costa Rica. 



168. 53. 51. 39. 

 156. 50. 51. 40.5 



Remarks. A. axillaris is a small species with a short bill, 

 related to A. mangle (Spix) of Brazil of which it is the northern 

 representative. Judged by the few specimens I have been able 

 to examine I should think the two were specifically distinct. 



A. axillaris is very different from any species occurring in the 

 same region with it, being at once distinguished by its small size, 

 black and white under wing-coverts and red-brown neck. It 

 does not appear to be subject to any geographic variation — 

 southern and northern examples being, so far as I can see, quite 



Aramides cajanea (Miiller). 



Fulica cajanea Miill., Syst. Nat. Suppl., p. 119, 1776, based on 

 Daubent. PI. Eul. pi. 352. 



Rallus chiricote Vieill., N. Diet, d' Hist. Nat., 28, p. 551, 1789. 



Aramides cayanea Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. Vol. 23, pp. 57- 

 58, 1894. 



Aramides cayanea subsp. A. Aramides chiricote Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Br. Mus. Vol. 23, pp. 58-59, 1894. 



Aramides chiricote Biol. Cent. Am. Aves, Vol. 3, p. 318, 1897- 

 1904. 



Type Locality: Cayenne. 



Geoc/rapkic Distrihution: Tropical America in general from 

 northern Brazil nortli tlirough Panama and Chiri(iui to the Pacific 



allies ()ccii|)y an intciiiKHliatc ])()siti()n in the genus, being much 

 larger tluiii .1. (txillari.s and allied species, but inferior to the 

 gigantic .1. i/jxicalid (Nicill.i of southern South America); bill 



head gray, di.lln-, browner on oeejpnt; i.aek coneolor, olive; 

 breast, coneolor bright, deep, I'eddish tawnv. 



gray (nearest slate-gray) this color sometimes extending a little 

 > Coll. of E. A. & O. Bangs, Boston. 



