Little Wood Rail Aramides mangle, a Brazilian endemic, found in French Guiana

摘要

Little Wood Rail Aramides mangle is the smallest (c.30 cm) of the seven Neotropical Aramides species. It occurs in coastal eastern Brazil between approximately 00 deg S and 25 deg S, i.e. from north-east Para to south-east Parana (Taylor & van Perlo 1998). An early claim of its occurrence as far north as Guyana lacked evidence (Burmeister 1856), and following Peters (1934) and Hellmayr & Conover (1942) subsequent authors have considered Little Wood Rail as a Brazilian endemic (Meyer de Schauensee 1970, Taylor 1996, Taylor & van Perlo 1998).