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detailed, but it agrees with that form in the stoutness of the bill, in 

 which character it thus differs from all the West Indian, Central 

 American, and North American forms of the species. From Rallus 

 longirostris crassirostris it may be distinguished by its rather shorter 

 wing, slenderer bill, wider w^hite bars on sides and flanks, and darker 

 coloration. 



The type of this new subspecies is the only specimen that the 

 writer has had opportunity to examine. 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS MANGLECOLA Danforth 



AxTiGUA Clapper Rail 



Rallus longirostris manglecola Danforth, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 47, 

 p. 19, Feb. 9, 1934 ("Five Islands, Antigua")- 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Rallus longirostris longirostris 

 but larger; bill much longer and slenderer; white bars on sides and 

 flanks narrow^er; entire upper parts, including wings, tail, and sides of 

 head and of neck, darker; and sides of head more purely grayish. 



Description. — Brown phase, immature, sex unloiown, U.S.N .M. 

 no. 76386, Guadeloupe Island, West Indies; F. A. Ober. Forehead, 

 crown, and occiput rather grayish sepia brow^n, slightly and obscurely 

 streaked wdth lighter brown, the feathers of forehead with stiff, shiny, 

 blackish clove brown shafts; upper hind-neck olive brown, somewhat 

 streaked wdtli light drab; lower portion of hind-neck, with all the back 

 and scapulars, between sepia and bister but mostly darker than either, 

 the feathers edged, often broadly, with Saccardo's umber, light brow^n- 

 ish olive, grayish olive, light grayish olive, and smoke gray; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts rather deep sepia, the feathers mostly margined 

 with brownish ohve; rectrices between bister and sepia, darker medi- 

 ally, and passing laterally into olive brow^n or buffy brown; primaries 

 and secondaries dark mummy brown, lighter on the latter and on the 

 external margins of primaries; tertials dark brown like the back, 

 broadly edged with Saccardo's umber and hght brownish olive; pri- 

 mary coverts mummy brown ; greater wing-coverts between bister and 

 sepia or between bister and snuff brown, becoming snuff brown later- 

 ally; lesser and median coverts Saccardo's umber, the former with 

 shaft streaks of sepia; alula mummy brown, the exterior w^eb of outer- 

 most feather spotted obscurely with dull ochraceous buff; sides of 

 head mouse gray, the lores more brownish, a narrow* supraloral streak 

 dull ochraceous buff, and a lengthened spot on lower ej^elid dull buffy 

 white; sides of neck rather light olive brown, obscurely streaked with 

 drab gray and buff'; chin and upper throat white, with a very faint 

 creamy tinge, laterally pale ochraceous buff; juguhim anteriorly pale 

 ochraceous buff, deepening into pinkish cinnamon posteriorly and on 

 middle of breast, but everyw^here somewhat overlaid with light gray; 



