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Range. — Resident in fresh- water swamps in western Cuba (Prov- 

 inces of Habana, Matanzas, and Santa Clara), said to be abundant 

 in the Zapata Swamp, elsewhere scarce. This form, or possibly a dis- 

 tinct race, formerly inhabited Jamaica, where the species is now 

 extinct, and whence no specimens exist in any museum. 



Type locality. — Near Jaruco, Province of Habana, Cuba. 



Rallus variegatus (not of Vieillot) D'Obbigny, La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, 



Ois., 1839, 261 (Spanish ed., p. 180 ) .—Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba). 

 Limnopardalis variegatus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., iv, 1856, 428 (Cuba). — 



GuNDLACH, Journ fiir Orn., xxiii, 1875, 357 (Cuba; habits); Contr. Orn. 



Cubana, 1876, 190. 

 [Lininopa7-dalis] variegatus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., ix, 1861, 342 (Cuba) ; 



Rep. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-66, 361. 

 Rallus maculatus (not of Bocklaert) Sci^\ter and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon- 

 don, 1868, 444, part (monogr.).— Cory, AuIj, v, 1888, 52 (Cuba; descr., etc.) ; 



Birds West Indies, 1889, 253 (Cuba) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 9, 91, 



128 (Cuba). 

 yRallus'l maculatus Sciater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 139, part 



(Cuba).— Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 29 (Cuba). 

 [Aramus] maculatus Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 59, No. 10416, part (Cuba). 

 Limnopardalis maculatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 28, part 



(Cuba).— Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 242.— Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. 



Bull. 128, 1914, 25, part (Cuba). 

 Limnopardalis maculatus inoptatus Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, iv, 



1913, 90 (near Jaruco, Prov. Habana, Cuba; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.) ; Bull. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 168 (type spec, in Mus. Comp. Zool.) 

 Pardirallus maculatus inoptatus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 170. 

 P[ardirallus] m[aculatus] inoptatus Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 89 in text 



(Cuba). 



PARDIRALLUS MACULATUS INSOLITUS (Bangs and Peck) 



Honduranian Spotted Rail 



Adult (unsexed)^ — Similar to Pardirallus maculatus inoptatus, 

 but with the brown parts of the plumage darker, seal brown instead 

 of mummy brown; wing 121, tail 42, exposed culmen 48, tarsus 40, 

 middle toe without claw 35.5 mm. 



Range. — Known only from the type locality. 



Type locality. — Ycacas Lagoon, British Honduras. 



Limnopardalus maculatus insoUtus Bangs and Peck, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 xxi, 1908, 43 (Ycacos Lagoon, British Honduras; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs) ; 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 169 (type specimen in Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



Pardirallus maculatus insolitus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 169. 



^Unique type. 



