. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 46 BULLETIN 5 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM TahUomis Mathews, Syst. Av. Austral., ii, 1930, app. 904, note. (Type, by- original designation, Rallus paciflcus GmeUu=Rallus ecaudata J. F. Miller.) Hypotaenidia Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat, 1852, xxiii. (Type, by orig- inal designation, Rallus pectoralis "Cuvier," not Rallus pectoralis Temminck =Hypotaenidia australis Pelzeln.) Stictolimnas Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus., xv, No. 4, 1893, 274. (Type, by original designation, Stictolimnas sharpei Buttikofer=young Hypotccnidia sp.) Lewi
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 46 BULLETIN 5 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM TahUomis Mathews, Syst. Av. Austral., ii, 1930, app. 904, note. (Type, by- original designation, Rallus paciflcus GmeUu=Rallus ecaudata J. F. Miller.) Hypotaenidia Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat, 1852, xxiii. (Type, by orig- inal designation, Rallus pectoralis "Cuvier," not Rallus pectoralis Temminck =Hypotaenidia australis Pelzeln.) Stictolimnas Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus., xv, No. 4, 1893, 274. (Type, by original designation, Stictolimnas sharpei Buttikofer=young Hypotccnidia sp.) Lewinia Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, 1855, 120. (Type, by monotypy, Rallus lewinii ^vminson—Rallus 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. Bill 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 straight (except at tip, where more or less convex), not prominent basally, the mandibular rami without distinct lateral groove; nasal fossa extending for much more than half (sometimes for two-thirds) the length of maxilla (measured from laterofrontal ant
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