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Rallus e[legans] elegans Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxvi, Mar. 22, 1913, 

 84, 85, in text.— Hicks, Wils. Bull., xlv, 1933, 180 (Ashtabula County, 

 Ohio; very rare and local; nest and 7 eggs June 30). — Eliot 'and Bagq, 

 Auk, li, 1934, 246 (seen at Northampton, Mass.* Sept. 13, 1933).— Hicks, 

 Auk, liii, 1936, 228 (nesting near South Zanesville, and at Cambridge, 

 Ohio). — PooLE, Auk, Iv, 1938, 516 (weight and wing surface). 



RALLUS ELEGANS RAMSDENI Riley 

 Cuban King Rail 



Adults (sexes alike). — Similar to the light phase of Rallus elegans 

 elegans but smaller, more extensively white on the abdomen and lower 

 breast, and with the upper part of the cheeks and auriculars slightly 

 more grayish — gull gray to pale neutral gray. 



Jwvenal. — Similar to that of the nominate race. 



Natal down. — Unlaiown. 



Adult male.— Wmg 149-152.8 (151.2); tail 53-65 (56.4); exposed 

 culmen 53-58 (56.7) ; tarsus 52-56 (54.6) ; middle toe without claw 

 45-50 (47.8 mm.).«» 



Adult femaU.—W'mg 134-144.2 (141.4) ; tail 52-58.5 (57) ; exposed 

 culmen 46-54 (51.4) ; tarsus 49-55 (51.9) ; middle toe without claw 

 41.6^4 (42.8nim.).^o 



Range. — Resident, but scarce, in Cuba (Guantanamo, Habana, 

 Aguada de Pasajeros, Lake Ariguanaba, Bucuranao, Laguna del 

 Siteo, Zapata Swamp, not in the larger lakes of the island) ; and the 

 Isle of Pines (Siguanea, Los Indios, Pasadita, and Nueva Gerona). 



Type locality. — Guantanamo, Cuba. 



Rallus elegans (not of Audubon) Cabanis, Journ. fiir. Orn., iv, 1856, 427 

 (Cuba).— GuNDLACH, Journ. fiir Orn., x, 1862, 90 (Cuba; crit.) ; Contr. 

 Orn. Cubana, 1876, 188; Orn. Cubaua, 1895, 239.— Thienemann, Journ. fur 

 Orn., V, 1857, 156 (Cuba; descr. eggs ) .—Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., vii, 1860, 308.— Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 82 (Cuba; references) ; ix, 1892, 

 272 (Cuba) ; Birds West Indies, 1889, 253 (Cuba; excl. syn. part) ; Cat. 

 West Indian Birds, 1892, 91 (Cuba).— Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 

 1894, 8, part ( Cuba ) .—Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 87 (Cuba and Isle 

 of Pines). 



(1) Rallus elegans Bangs and Zappey, Amer. Nat, xxxix, 1905, 192 (Isle of 

 Pines, Cuba). 



[Rallus] elegans Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., ix, 1861, 342 (Cuba) ; Rep. Fisico- 

 Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-66, 360.— Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 139, 

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

 (Cuba).— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 93, part (Cuba). 



Riallus] elegans Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 672, part (Cuba). 



[Rallus elegans] a. elegans Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 538 (in synonymy). 



* Seven specimens from Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 

 *" Nine specimens from Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



