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c. Cheeks and postocular area with a brownish wash, or, if grayish, not 

 bluish or ashy gray. 

 d. Flanlvs pinkish umber, narrowly and indistinctly barred with rusty 



white to pale cinnamon Rallus longirostris tenuirostris (p. 81) 



dd. Flanks not pinkish umber. 



e. Breast less pinkish — light ochraceous-buff. 

 f. Wiug very short, less than 130 mm. 



Rallus longirostris cypereti (extralimital) " 

 ff. Wing longer 150-170 mm— Rallus longirostris obsoletus (p. 73) 

 ee. Breast more pinkish — pinkish cinnamon to pinkish orange-cinnamon. 

 /. Dark centers of dorsal feathers dark sepia to fuscous. 



Rallus longirostris levipes (p. 75) 

 ff. Dark centers of dorsal feathers dark fuscous to fuscous-black. 



Rallus longirostris beldingi (p. 78) 

 cc. Cheeks and postocular area generally bluish or ashy gray. 

 d. Bill very long ; the exposed culmen over 73 mm. in length. 



Rallus longirostris manglecola (p. 70) 

 dd. Bill shorter ; exposed culmen less than 73 mm. in length, 

 e. With breast and lower throat only very slightly washed with pale 

 pinkish buff, and with an ashy tinge. 

 f. Dark areas of dorsal feathers paler — buffy brown 



Rallus longirostris coryi (p. 62) 

 ff. Dark areas of dorsal feathers darker — fuscous. 



Rallus longirostris leucophaeus, pale phase (p. 66) 

 ee. With breast and lov.^er throat cinnamon-buff to light pinkish cinnamon, 

 and even slightly darker. 

 f. Chin and upper throat slightly washed with pale pinkish buflE. 

 ff. Dark areas of dorsal feathers sepia to dark clove brown. 

 h. Dark areas of dorsal feathers darker — dark clove brown 



Rallus longirostris pelodramus (extralimital)^ 

 7ih. Dark areas of dorsal feathers paler — sepia. 



Rallus longirostris longirostris (extralimital)" 

 Sfg. Dark areas of dorsal feathers Saccardo's umber. 



Rallus longirostris caribaeus (p. 64) 



"Rallus longirostris cypereti. — Rallus cypereti Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1877, 747 (Santa Lucia, Tumbez, nw. Peru; coll. Warsaw Mus.) ; Orn. 

 Perou, iii, 1886, 315. — [Rallus] cypereti Brabourne and Chubb, Birds South 

 America, i, 1912, 21 (w. Ecuador; nw. Peru). — Riallus] longirostris cypereti 

 Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., xiii, 1906, 52 (Vacqueria, w. Ecuador; Tumbez, nw. 

 Peru). — Rallus longirostris (not of Boddaert) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiii, 1894, 10, part (Santa Lucia, w. Peru) .— [Rallus} longirostris Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, 93, part (Peru). — Rallus longirostris cypereti Chapman, Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Iv, 1926, 174 (Ecuador) ; Peters, Checklist Birds of 

 World, ii, 1934, 159. 



" Rallus longirostris pelodramus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxiv, 

 1937, 323 (Caroni Swamp, Trinidad). 



■" Rallus longirostris longirostris. — Rallus longirostris Boddaert, Tabl. PI. 

 Enl., 1783, 52 (Caj'enne; based on rale d long hec, de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. 

 EnL, pi. 849) ; Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 433; Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat, 

 xxviii, 1819, 557; Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 536; Reichenbach, Handb., Fuli- 

 cariae, 1851, pi. 106, figs. 1150, 1151 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays. Bas, v. No. 30, livr. 7, 

 1865, 11; Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 444, part (monogr.) ; 



