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Adult maU.—Wmg 142.5-159 (149.0); tail 57-67 (61.8); exposed 

 culmen 58-66 (62.7) ; tarsus 52.5-55.5 (54.9) ; middle toe- without claw 

 45-51.5 (48.2 mm.). «* 



Adult female.— W'mg 128-139.5 (132.6) ; tail 49-65 (58.5) ; exposed 

 culmen 57-61 (59) ; tarsus 48-54 (52) ; middle toe without claw 

 43.5-45.5 (44.8 mm.).''^ 



Range. — Resident and common in the coastal mangrove swamps of 

 Cuba (Trinidad; Mariel; Preston; Manati; Guantanamo; Wharf Los 

 Canos Estate; Casilda ; near Nipe Bay). 



Type locality. — Casilda, coast of southern Cuba. 



Rallns longirostris (not of Boddaert) d'Okbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, 

 Ois., 1839, 2G0, pi. 31, fig. 5 (Spanish ed., 1S39, 179 ) .— Solater and Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 444 (Cuba). — Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 

 1895, 241. 



RaUus crepitans (not of Gmelin) Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 427 (Cuba). — 

 Brewee, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba). — Gundlach, 

 Jouru. fiir Orn., 1875, 356 (Cuba; habits) ; Contr. Orn. Cubana, 1876, 189. 



Rlallus] crepitans Gundlach, Anal. Hist. Nat., ii, 1874, 165 (Cuba). 



[Rallus'] crepitans Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba) ; Pvepert. Fisico- 

 Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-66, 361 (Cuba). 



Rallus longirostris carihwus (not of Ridgway) Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 53, part 

 (Cuban references) ; Birds West Indies, 1889, 254, part (Cuban references). 



Rallus longirostris caribaeus Peters, Check-list Birds of "vVorld, ii, 1934, 158 part. 



R[allus] l[otigirostris] caribaeus Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 87, part (Cuba). 



Rallus longirostris cuianus Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., iv, 1892, 288 

 (Casilda, s. coast of Cuba; coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist). — Cooke, U. S. Dept 

 Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 22 ( Cuba ) .—Barbour, Mem. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1923, 

 53 (distr.). — Danforth, Wils. Bull., xl, 1928, 179 (near Santiago de Cuba, 

 Cuba). — Oberholsek, Pi'oc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Isxxiv, 1937, 331 (monogr. ; crit.). 



Rallus cuhanns Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 329. 



[Rallus] cuhanus Sharpe, Hand-list i, 1899, 93. 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS LEUCOPHAEUS Todd 



Isle of Pines Clapper Rail 



Adult (sexes alike) , pale phase. — Similar to Rallus longirostris cu- 

 hanus and Rallus longirost7is waynei on the upper parts but much 

 paler below ; the throat, breast, and abdomen being dull white washed 

 with pale cinnamon-buff on the upper breast and with a mixture of 

 the same and pale gray on the sides of the throat ; paler and whiter 

 than Rallus longirostris coryi; flanks grayer and slightly paler than 

 in cub anus. 



Adult female, darh phase (no males seen). — Differs from the pale 

 phase only on the underparts; entire lower throat, sides of neck, the 

 breast and the upper abdomen heavily washed with light grayish olive 

 suffused with very pale avellaneous to pale pinkish buff. In this 



Eight specimens. 

 Four specimens. 



