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Rallus longirostris (not of Boddaert) Sennettt, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. 

 Surv., Iv, No. 1, 1878, 61 (Galveston, Tex., Feb. 28).—? Williams, Auk, Iv, 

 1938, 64 (upper Texas coast). 



Rallus longirostris subsp. ? Brooks, Auk. 1, 1933, 62 (Port Isabel, Tex. ; meas.). 



[Rallus longirostris] d. saturatiis Bated, Bkeweb, and Ridgway, Water Birds 

 North Amer., i, 1884, 360 (diagnosis). 



Rallus longirostris var. saturatus Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 xxix, 1881, 72 (reprint of orig. descr.). 



[Rallus longirostris.] Subsp. 5 Rallus saturatus Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiii, 1894, 18, part, pi. 1 (Lake Borgne, La.). 



Rallus crepitans saturatus Sennett, Auk, vi, 1889, 164 (crit.), 166 (diag- 

 nosis). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, vii, 1890, 65; 

 Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, No. 211o ; ed. 3 1910, p. 102.— Beyer, Proc. Louisiana 

 Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 93 (salt marshes of Louisiana, rare resident). — 

 Beyer, Allison, and Kopman, Auk, xxv, 1908, 176 (coast of Louisiana and up 

 Mississippi River to upper quarantine station. — Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 

 128, 1914, 20 fig. 9, map (range) . — Simmons, Auk, xxxi, 1914, 363 [-384] (coast 

 prairies of Texas se. of Houston; historical; crit. ; habits, etc.). — Bent, Wils. 

 Bull., xxxvi, 1924, 10 (coastal marshes from Galveston Bay to Aransas Pass, 

 se. Texas) ; U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 135, 1927, 283 (life hist, monogr. ) .—Bailey, 

 Auk, xlv, 1928, 277 (winter in Chenier au Tigr6, La.). 



Rallus saturatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, pi. 1. 



[Rallus] saturatus Shaepb, Hand-list, i, 1899, M. 



Rallus longirostris crepitans (not R. crepitans Gmelin) Fisher (A. K.), Auk, 

 V, 1888, 108 (Grand Isle, La., breeding). 



[Rallus longirostris,] Subsp. /3 Rallus crepitans Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiii, 1894, 12, part (Corpus Christi, Tex.). 



(?) Rallus crepitans Beyer, Proc. Louisiana Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 93 

 (salt marshes of Louisiana, resident). 



Rallus longirostris carihwus (not of Ridgway) Sennett, Auk, v, 1888, 319 (Gal- 

 veston and Corpus Christi, Tex.); vi, 1889, 163 (crit.), 164 (diagnosis). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Abridged Check -list, 1889, No. 211c: 

 Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, No. 211.2, part (Texas localities) ; ed. 3, 1910, p. 103, 

 part (Texas localities). — Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1896, 

 587, part (Galveston and Corpus Christi, Tex.). 



Rallus longirostris carihwus Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 22 part 

 (range). 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS CORYI Maynard 



Baham.\ Clapper Rail 



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

 slightly paler above, the crown, hind neck, and the centers of the 

 feathers of the back, interscapulars, scapulars, etc., very slightly 

 paler, more olive, less brownish — light brownish olive, and the mar- 

 gins, in comparable plumages, slightly broader and paler — pallid 

 neutral gray; the sides of neck, lower throat, breast, and upper 

 abdomen paler — pale pinkish buff with a faint wash of light pinkish 

 cinnamon; middle of abdomen cartridge buff; flanks averaging 

 slightly paler, more grayish, less brownish than in crepitans, but 

 occasionally as dark as in that form ; "iris reddish brown ; bill orange 



