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except a small wliitish patch next to the chin, all the breast, and the 

 upper abdomen dusky drab slightly tinged with cinnamon-buff, espe- 

 cially on the upper abdomen ; flanks of dark phase dark blackish olive- 

 brown, barred with white; iris "clear brown"; bill dull brown, tip 

 paler, basal two-thirds of mandible and sides of maxilla below and 

 behind nostril dull yellowish; tarsi and toes dull brown (in dried 

 skin). 



Juvenal. — None seen. 



Natal down. — Coal black. 



Adult inale.—Wmg 151-159.5 (155) ; tail 61.5-66.4 (63.3) ; exposed 

 culmen 63.8-68.5 (65.5) ; tarsus 57-61 (59) ; middle toe without claw 

 50-54 (51.9 mm.).«« 



Adult female.— Wmg 134.5-144.5 (138.4) ; tail 54.4-60 (56.9) : ex- 

 posed culmen 53.6-63 (58.7) : tarsus 46.4-59.5 (52.8) ; middle toe with- 

 out claw 40.5-45 (43.2 mm.). •'^ 



Range. — Resident in the coastal mangrove swamps of Haiti (Fort 

 Liberte ; Caracol ; Petit Trou de Nippes ; Grande Cayemite ; Etroites ; 

 Gonave Island; Picmy; Bizoton; Aquin; Cap-Haitien) ; and the 

 Dominican Rej)ublic (Monte Cristi) ; everywhere local in occurrence. 



Type locality. — Etroites, Gonave Island, Haiti. 



Rallus longirostris Baetsch, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxs, 1917, 132 

 (Haiti).— Beebe, New York Zool. Soc. Bull., xxx, 1927, 139 (Bizoton) ; Be- 

 neath Tropic Seas, 1928, 129. 



Rallus longirostris carihaeus Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixi, 1917, 402 (Monte 

 Cristi, Dominican Republic,) ; Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 158, part, 



RiaUus'\ liongirostris] caril)aeus Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 87, part 

 (Hispaniola, Gonave Island, He k Vache). 



Rallus longirostris vafer Wetmore, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xli, 1928, 121 

 (Etroites, Gonave Island, Haiti).— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1928,495 

 (Port-au-Prince, Caracol, Jaquesy, Fort Libert^). — Danforth, Auk, xlvi, 1929, 

 362 (Monte Cristi, Les Salines, Gonave). — Weh-moee and Swales, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., Bull. 155, 1931, 130 (habits; distr; Hispaniola). — WetiMOee, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxi, art. 2, 1932, 5, 6, 15 (Petite Gonave Island; Grande 

 Cayemite Island ; Petit Trou de Nippes, Haiti ; meas. ) . — Wittmoee and 

 Lincoln, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxii, art. 25, 1933, 10 ((He k Vache).— 

 Odekholser. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxiv. 1937, 328 (monogr. ; crit. ) . 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS LIMNETIS Oberholser 



Puerto Rican Clapper Rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Similar to Rallus longirostris crepitans but 

 slightly browner above and more pinkish cinnamon on the lower throat 

 and breast; flanks darker; differs from caribaeus in being less rufes- 

 cent, more grayish brown ; two phases — the pale one with the crown, 

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



"Four specimens; all measurements except middle toe, ex Wetmore. 

 *" Seven specimens ; all measurements except middle toe, ex Wetmore. 



