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brown, culminal ridge and tip blackish; feet pale brownish orange 

 or olive-gray." 



Juvenal male (no young female seen, but probably similar). — 

 Similar to that of Rallus longirosti^s crepitans^ but generally paler., 

 the upperparts differing as do the respective adults ; abdomen white^ 

 the dusky mottling and clouding restricted to the sides and flanks; 

 only the lower throat and upper breast with a faint pale pinkish 

 buff wash, laterally suffused with light grayish. 



Natal doion. — Unrecorded. 



Adult maie.—'Wmg 137-150 (146); tail 53.5-67 (61.3); exposed 

 culmen 53-65 (59.5) ; tarsus 45-53.5 (49.4) ; middle toe without claw 

 44.5^9.8 (47.8mm.).^« 



Adult fem/ile.—Wmg 128.5-141 (134.7) ; tail 54-62 (57.5) ; exposed 

 culmen 52-60.5 (55.3) ; tarsus 42-50 (46.9) ; middle toe without claw 

 39.5-45 (43.2mm.).«i 



Range. — Resident in the mangrove swamps of the Bahama Islands 

 (Andros Island; Watling Island; Berry Island; New Providence; 

 Abaco Island ; Ragged Island ; Eleuthera Island) . 



Type locality. — Island off the south shore of Andros Island, 

 Bahamas. 



Rallus crepitans (not of Gmelin) Bkyant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 

 1859, 122 (Nassau?, Bahamas).— Albeecht, Journ. fUr Orn., ix, 1861, 56 

 (Bahamas). 



[Ralhis'\ longirostris crepitans Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. 

 ed., 1886, 29 (Bahamas). 



Rallus longirostris crepitans Cort, Auk, v, 1888, 53 (Bahama references) ; 

 Birds West Indies, 1889, 254 (Bahamas). 



Rallus longirostris (not of Boddaert) Coey, Birds Bahama Islands, 1880, 176 

 (New Providence). 



Rallus corrius [typog. error] Maynard, Amer. Exch. and Mart, Jan. 15, 1887, 69. 



Rallus coryi Maynakd, Amer. Exch. and Mart, Feb. 5, 1887, 69 (Andros Island, 

 Bahamas; coll. C. J. Maynard) ; Contr. Sci., i, 1890, 39.— Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 

 53 (Andros Island) ; viii, 1891, 294 (New Providence Island), 295 (Berry 

 Islands) ; Birds West Indies, 1889, 254 (Andros Is.) ; Introd. to Rev. Ed. 

 Birds Bahamas, 1890, no paging; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 137.— 

 Sennett, Auk, vi, 1889, 165 (diagnosis). — Northkop, Auk, viii, 1891, 77 

 (Andros Island) ; descr. eggs). — Chapman, Amer. Nat., xxv, 1891, 530 (An- 

 dres Island). — BoNHOTE, Ibis, 1903, 308 (Andros Island; crit). — Allen 

 (G. M.), Auk, xxii, 1905, 122 (Great Abaco Island).— Allen, Auk, viii, 1891, 

 77, in text (Andros Island; crit.). 



[Rallus} coryi Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 93. 



Rallus longirostris coryi Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 9, 91, 126, 137 

 (Abaco; Berry Islands; New Providence; Abaco.). — Peters, Check-list 

 Birds of World, ii, 1934, 158. 



Rlallus] liongirostris] coryi Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 87, 88 in text 

 (Bahama Islands). 



*" Seven specimens, including the type. 

 ^ Ten specimens. 



