Canirallus Oculeus Bird

English Name:  Gray-throated Rail
Latin Name:  Canirallus oculeus
Protonym:  Gallinula oculea J.Orn. 3 p.357
Taxonomy:  Gruiformes / Rallidae / Canirallus
Taxonomy Code:  gytrai1
Type Locality:  Rio Boutry, Gold Coast.
Author:  Hartlaub
Publish Year:  1855
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CANIRALLUS
(Rallidae; Ϯ Grey-throated Rail C. oculeus) L. canus  grey; genus Rallus Linnaeus, 1758, rail. "19. Gallinula oculea Temm.  Major, pulchra; supra pure olivacea, occipite obscuriore, sincipite, facie, periophthalmiis et gula dilute cinereis" (Hartlaub 1855); "Aa. GALLINULEÆ.  ...  134. Canirallus, Hartlaub.  410. oculeus, Temm.  411. kioloides, Pucher." (Bonaparte 1856); "Canirallus "Hartlaub" Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 43, 1856, p. 600. Type, by subsequent designation, Gallinula oculea Hartlaub (Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 23, 1894, p. 72)." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 180).  Laurent Raty in litt., citing Witmer Stone, 1894, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 46, p. 140, raises the probability that the Madagascar Wood Rail Mentocrex kioloides is the true type of Canirallus.
Var. Conirallus.

oculea / oculeus
L. oculeus  full of eyes (i.e. dotted with white or coloured spots)  < oculus  eye.