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of the body buffy brown darkening to olive-brown on the long scapu- 

 lars, their edges pale olive-gray; flanks Saccardo's umber barred 

 with white ; lower throat, sides of neck, and breast pale ochraceous- 

 buff with a faint light cinnamon wash, only the sides of neck and 

 middle of throat lightly tinged with grayish ; and the dark phase with 

 the crown, occiput, hind neck, and the centers of the feathers of the 

 upperparts sepia, the latter feathers edged with smoke gray washed 

 with pale olive brownish ; sides of neck, entire lower throat, and upper 

 breast darker than in light phase — washed with drab ; otherwise simi- 

 lar ; iris reddish hazel ; culmen and tip of lower mandible brown, the 

 base reddish ; tarsi and toes liver brown, redder on the forepart of the 

 tibiae. 



Juvenal. — None seen. 



Natal down. — Coal black ; bill with the mandible and distal half of 

 maxilla and an elongated patch over each nostril scarlet, the rest livid 

 pink. 



Adult male.—Wmg 138.5-150 (145.5) ; tail 56.5-63.5 (61.2) ; exposed 

 culmen 62-68 (63.9) ; tarsus 50-56.5 (54.2) ; middle toe without claw 

 47-49.5 (47.4mm.).^° 



Adult female.— W'mg 136.5-139.5 (137.6) ; tail 56-60 (57.7) ; exposed 

 culmen 55-60 (58.2) ; tarsus 43.5-50 (47.4) ; middle toe without claw 

 41.5-43.5 (42.5 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Resident in mangi'ove swamps of Puerto Rico (San Juan; 

 Boqueron; Parguera; Tallaboa; Mayaguez; Mameyes; La Playita 

 near Salinas; Puerto Real; Aguadilla) ; Culebra Island; Vieques 

 Island; Tortola; St. Croix; and St. Thomas. 



Type locality. — ^Mameyes, Puerto Rico. 



Rallus longirostris (not of Boddaert) Newton (A. and E.), Ibis, 1859, 260 (St. 



Croix; habits, fresli colors of soft parts). — Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1860, 378 (St. Thomas; crit.) — Wetmore, Journ. Agr. Univ. 



Puerto Rico, xxi, 1937, 8 (St. Croix; kitchen middens). 

 Rallus crepitans (not of Gmelin) Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., xxvi, 1878, 162, 



189 (Puerto Rico) ; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 388 (Puerto 



Rico).— Stahl., Fauna de Puerto Rico, 18S3, 63, 152 (Puerto Rico; 



specimen). 

 (?) [Rallus longirostris] c. var. carihwus Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 18S0, 



140, part. 

 [Rallus longirostris'] d. carihocus, Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds 



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

 [Rallus longirostris] c. caribceus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds 



North Amer., i, 1884, 360, part (St. Croix). 

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



ed., 1886, 29, part ("Antilles"). 



""" Eight specimens from Puerto Rico, Culebra Island, and St. Thomas. 

 '^ Five specimens from Puerto Rico and St. Thomas. 



