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Range. — Eesident in mangrove swamps on Antigua (Five Islands) ; 

 Gaudeloupe and probably Barbuda; one doubtful record for St. 

 Kitts/* 



Type locality. — Five Islands, Antigua. 

 Rallus crepitans (not of Gmelin) Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 461 



(Guadeloupe), 487 (Barbuda ; Antigua : Guadeloupe). — Mimi, La Guadeloupe 



du Tricentenaire, 1935, 137 (Guadeloupe). 

 ? [Rallus longirostris] c. var. caribwus Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 



140, part. 

 [Ralhis longifostris] d. caribaeus Bated, Brewee, and Ridgway, Water Birds 



North Amer., i, 1884, 359, part (synonymy). 

 [Rallus longirostris'^ c. caribwus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds 



North Amer., i, 1884, 360, part. 

 [Rallus] longirostris carlbcens Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 



1886, 29 part ("AntiUes"). 

 Rallus longirostris caribccus Coey, Auk, v, 1SS8, 53, part: Birds West Indies, 



1889, 254, part ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 9, 91, part (Barbuda ; Antigua ; 



Guadeloupe). — American Oenithologists' Union, Check-list North Amer. 



Birds, ed. 2, 1895, no. 211.2, part ("West Indies") ; ed. 3, 1910, 103, part 



("West Indies").— CooKE, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 22, part. 

 Ralhis longirostris caribaeus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 158, part. 

 [Rallus longirostris] subsp. 7 Rallus caribceus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xxiii, 1894, 13, part (Guadeloupe; Barbuda; Antigua). 

 [Rallus] caribaeus Sharpe, Hand-list, 1, 1899, 94 part. 

 Rallus longirostris subsp. uov. Danfoeth, Supplement, Leeward Islands Gazette, 



Nov. 16, 1933, 2 (Antigua). 

 Rallus longirostris manglecola Danfoeth, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xlvii, 1934, 19 



(orig. descr. ; Five Islands, Antigua; meas. ) ; Auk, li, 1934, 357 (common in 



mangroves at Five Islands, Antigua) ; Journ. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, xix, 



1935, 477 (Barbuda, spec, needed to make ident. certain). — Obeeholser, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxiv, 1937, 324 (monogr. ; Antigua and Guadeloui^e ) . — 



Danfoeth, Journ. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, xxiii, 1939, 22 (not common in 



Guadeloupe; 7 specimens in Musoe L'Herminier). 

 R[allus] l[ongirostris] manglecola Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 87 and 88 in 



text (Guadeloupe and possibly Martinique). 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS PALLIDUS Nelson 



Yucatan Clapper Rail 



Adult female (only specimen known of race) . — Similar to Rallus 

 longirostris crepitans., but upperparts, including wings and tail, more 

 rufescent, less grayish; dark centers of feathers of back, scapulars, 

 etc., olive-brown. "Top of head and neck bister brown ; feathers of 

 back, scapulars, tertials, rump, and upper tail coverts olivaceous bis- 

 ter brown, broadly edged with ashy gray producing strongly marked 

 streaks of gray and brown ; upper surface of primaries and second- 



'*Burdon, Handbook St. Kitts-Nevis, 1920, 108 (Rail St. Kitts "nests on ground 

 In the Eastern swamps"). This probably applies to manglecola, but it is not 

 certain. 



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