Wood rails (Aramides) were unknown from the Pacific coast of Peru until Graves (1982) reported a sight record of a Brown Wood Rail Aramides wolfi in mangroves at Puerto Pizarro, dpto. Tumbes. Here I review this report, the only record for Peru, and update the status of Aramides wood rails in Tumbes. On 26 September 1977,1 encountered a wood rail at low tide at the margin of extensive mangrove forest. I wrote a description and penned a drawing of the rail in my notes later that afternoon (Graves 1982: 237): T cornered the rail in an isolated mangrove and approached it within 3 meters. The chicken-sized, "Aramides-type" rail had a rather stout yellowish bill, dark olivaceous browfi upperparts and pale gray throat.
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