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Adult female.— Wing 129.5-146.5 (138.4) ; tail 56-63.5 (59.9) ; ex- 

 posed culmen 53-62.5 (58.7) ; tarsus 43.5-50 (46.7) ; middle toe with- 

 out claw 41.5-47.5 (44.4 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Resident in coastal marshes from South Carolina (Mount 

 Pleasant; Charleston; Frogmore) south to Georgia (Savannah; St. 

 Catherines Island; Blackbeard Island; Darien; St. Simon Island; 

 Cumberland; St. Marys; and St. Germain) and Florida (along the 

 northeast coast from Amelia Island to Merritt Island — Amelia 

 Island, Matanzas Inlet, New Smyrna; Dummitt Creek, Pallesier 

 Creek, and northern Brevard County). 



Type locality. — St. Marys, Camden County, Ga. 



IRallus crepitans (not of Gmelin?) Tayi^or, Ibis, 1862, 129 (Florida).— Atxex, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 357 (e. Florida). 



Rallus crepitans (not of Gmelin) Coues, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xii, 1868, 

 124 (South Carolina.)— Sennett, Auk. vi, 1889, 163, 165, part— Pniupr, 

 Auk, xxvii, 1910, 315 (Charleston Harbor, str., S. C, breeding). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, 211, part. 



[Rallus lovgirostris] b. var. crepitans Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 

 140, part. 



Rallus longirostris crepitans Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 18S0, 201 

 (Cat. North Amer. Birds, No. 571), part; Nom. North Amer. Birds, 1881, 

 No. 571, part. — Coues, Check List, ed. 2, 1882, No. 673, part. — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 221, part. 



Rlallus] longirostris crepitans Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 672, 

 part. — Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 137, part. 



[Rallus longirostris] b. crepitans Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds 

 North Amer., i, 1884, 358, 360, part. 



[Rallus longirostris] subsp. B. Rallus crepitans Sharte, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiii, 1894, 12, part (Georgia). 



[Rallus] longirostris (not of Boddaert) Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 273, 

 part. 



Rallus longirostris Coues, Check-list, 1874, No. 465, part ; Birds Northwest, 1874, 

 536, part (in synonomy). — Baird, Breweb, and Ridgway, Water Birds North 

 Amer., i, 1884, 358, part. 



Rallus crepitans waynei Brewster, Proc. New England Zool. Club, i, 1899, 50 (St. 

 Marys, Camden County, Ga. ; coll. Wm. Brewster). — ? Bishop, Auk, xviii, 

 1901, 265 (Pea Island, N. C. ; fresh colors of nude parts [=crepitans?]) . — 

 Wayne, Birds South Carolina, 1910, 36 (resident along coast; habits). — 

 American Ornithologists" Union, Check-list, ed. 3, 1910, 102. — Cooke, U. S. 

 Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 21, fig. 9, map (range and migr. routes). — 

 Erichsen, Auk, xxxvi, 1919, 3S4 (Liberty County, Ga., breeding) ; Wils. Bull., 

 xxxiii, 1921, 74 (Chatham County, Ga., breeding; habits). — Holt and Sutton, 

 Ann. Carnegie Mus., xvi, 1926, 424 (habits, s. Florida ).^ — Bangs, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 167 (type specimen in Mus. Comp. Zool., crit. ), 



Rallus longirostris ivaynei Bailey, Birds Florida, 1925, 41, pi. 23 (col. fig.; distr. ; 

 Florida).— Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 135, 1927, 290 (life hist.; mouogr.).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list North Amer. Birds, ed. 4, 1931, 

 96. — Howell, Florida Bird Life, 1932, 204 (genl. ; distr.; Florida). — PETsais, 



^ Sixteen specimens, from South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. 



