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of head and entire iinderparts plumbeous except chin and upper 

 throat, which are white. 

 Range. — Confined to the Zapata Swamp, Cuba. (Monotypic.) 



CYANOLIMNAS CERVERAI Barbour and Peters 



Zapata Rah, 



Adult (sexes alike). — Forehead, anterior part of crown, circum- 

 ocular area, lores, cheeks, auriculars, lower sides of neck, lower throat, 

 breast, upper abdomen, sides, and thighs, slate-gray; the crown 

 becoming olive-brown posteriorly, which color extends over the occi- 

 put, hindneck, scapulars, interscapulars, and upper wing coverts; 

 the hindneck and interscapulars a trifle more olive and less brownish 

 than the hind crown and occiput; remiges and rectrices fuscous 

 black; back, rump, and upper tail coverts sepia to bister with a faint 

 olive tinge; lower abdomen and thighs dusky slate with a faint 

 fuscous tinge and the feathers very narrowly tipped with white, 

 flanks olive sepia narrowly tipped with white; shorter under tail 

 coverts avellaneous, the longer ones white; under wing coverts dull 

 fuscous-black narrowly tipped with white ; iris red ; bill red basally ; 

 gi'eenish medially and yellowish green terminally ; tarsi and toes red. 



Juvenal female. — Like adult, but the colors generally slightly 

 duller. 



Natal down. — Brownish black. 



Adult male (type). — Wing 109.6; tail 43.3; exposed culmen 47.4; 

 tarsus 46.1 mm. ; middle toe without claw 41.5 mm.^^ 



Adult female.— Wmg 95.8-103.1 (99.5) ; tail 36.6-42.9 (37.1) ; ex- 

 posed culmen 36-42 (38.2) ; tarsus 38.8-44 (41.1) ; middle toe without 

 claw 37.2-39.6 (38.1 mm.).«* 



Range. — Known only from the type locality. 



2'ype locatlity. Santo Tomas, Peninsula de Zapata, Cuba. 



Cyanolirnnas cervcrai BArBont and Peters, Proc. New England Zool. Club, ix, 

 1927, 95 (orig. descr. ) .—Barbour, Aiik, xlv, 1928, 31 in text, pi. 4 (col. fig.; 

 gen. chars.).— Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 168 (type specimen 

 in Mus. Comp. Zool.).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 174.— 

 Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 90. 



Genus PARDIRALLUS Bonaparte 



PardiraUus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii. Sept, 1856, 599. (Type, by mono- 

 typy, Rallus variegatus Gmelin=i2. maculatus Boddaert.) 



Limnopardalus Cabanis, Joum. fiir Orn., 1856 (publ. 1857), 428. (Type, by 

 monotypy, Rallus variegatus Guielin=i2. maculatus Boddaert.) 



Limnopardnlis (emendation) Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 59.— Shaiipe Hand-list, 

 i, 1899, 95. 



"^ One specimen ; measurements by Peters. 

 "Three specimens; measurements by Peters. 



