. The birds of North and Middle America : a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other islands of the Caribbean sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago . Birds. 46 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM TaUtomis Mathews, Syst. Av. Austral., il, 1930, app. 904, note. (Type, by original designation, Rallus paciflcus Gmelin=Rallus ecaudata J. F. Miller.) Hypotaenidia Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852, xxiii. (Type, by orig- inal designation, Rallus pe
. The birds of North and Middle America : a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other islands of the Caribbean sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago . Birds. 46 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM TaUtomis Mathews, Syst. Av. Austral., il, 1930, app. 904, note. (Type, by original designation, Rallus paciflcus Gmelin=Rallus ecaudata J. F. Miller.) Hypotaenidia Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852, xxiii. (Type, by orig- inal designation, Rallus peotoralis "Cuvier," not Rallus pectoralis Temminck =Sypotaenidia australis Pelzeln.) SttctoUmnas Btjttikofek, Notes Leyden Mus., xv. No. 4, 1893, 274. (Type, by original designation, Stictolimnas sharpei Biittikofer=young Hypotwnidia sp.) Lewinia Gbay, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, 1855, 120. (Type, by raonotypy, Rallus lewmii SwaInson=72aJZttS pectoralis Temminck and Laugier.) Donacias Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 321. (Nom. nov. pro Lewinia Gray.) Rather small to rather large Ralli with culmen as long as or longer than tarsus, second primary (from outside) longest or equal to longest, flanks conspicuously barred with white, and dorsal region striped with black or Figure 3.—Rallus limicola limicola. Natural size. BiE slender to moderately stout, longer than head, the culmen as narrowly elliptical or slitlike, on line with axis of maxilla^ much posterior to middle of maxilla, its posterior end separated from laterof rontal antia by a space about equal to basal height of maxilla; laterofrontal angle at base of upper edge of nasal fossa, thence long as or longer than tarsus, slightly elevated and widened basally, slightly depressed and more constricted medially, slightly (but usually decidedly) decurved distally, rounded (in transverse section) throughout; gonys about half as long as mandibular rami (sometimes more, sometimes less), nearly straig
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