EEVISIOX OF THE CLAPPER RAILS OBERHOLSER 325 



sides of breast and middle of lower breast and of upper abdomen hair 

 brown (tliis a remnant of the juvenal plumage); abdomen dull white; 

 sides and flanks hair brov^^l, narrowlj^ barred -with dull white; thighs 

 exteriorly between hair brown and drab, interiorly very pale dull 

 grayish buffy or ochraceous white ; lining of wing mixed hair brown and 

 snuff brown, passing posteriorly into clear hair brown, and everywhere 

 much narrowly barred with white. 



Measurements. — Adult male ": Wing, 146.1 mm; tail, 60.5; exposed 

 culmen, 73.9 ; tarsus, 54 ; middle toe without claw, 50. Adult female ^^: 

 Wing, 135.5; tail, 60.7; exposed culmen, 64.8; tarsus, 45.8. Immature, 

 probable male^^: Wing, 148; tail, 62; exposed culmen, 64.5; tarsus, 

 51.5 ; middle toe without claw, 50. 



Type locality. — Five Islands, Antigua Island, West Indies. 



Geographic distribution. — Permanent resident on the West Indian 

 Islands of Antigua and Guadeloupe. 



Remarks. — This race is similar to Rallus longirostris pelodramus^ 

 of Tiinidad, but is much larger, the bill being much longer and slenderer, 

 the upper parts lighter and more rufescent, the centers of the feathers 

 less blackish (more brownish), and the margins of the feathers there 

 less grayish; the lower parts are lighter, and the center of the jugulum 

 has some gray wash, being not purely cinnamomeous. There are two 

 color phrases involving the color of the upper parts, one gray, the 

 other bro^\^l. 



A single specimen in fully developed juvenal plumage from the 

 Island of Guadeloupe, collected by F. A. Ober, is apparently the only 

 certain record of the occurrence of a clapper rail on this island. This 

 specimen, though fully grown, still possesses some of the dark juvenal 

 plumage on portions of the breast and abdomen, but otherwise, par- 

 ticularl}^ on the upper surface, it has acquired the full adult livery. 

 Although it exhibits some difTerences from the average of the other 

 West Indian forms of the species, it seems best, at least for the pres- 

 ent, in view of its immaturity, to refer it to Rallus longirostris man- 

 glecola, which it most closely resembles. It is, however, in the brown 

 phase, and thus differs materially in color from the type of this form. 

 It may, however, be regarded as the brown phase of this subspecies. 

 For pm-poses of comparison it has been described above. 



The following specimens of Rallus longirostris manglecola have been 

 seen: 



Antigua Island, West Indies: Five Islands (August 10, 1933).^* 



Guadeloupe Island, West Indies: (No further locality.) 



11 One specimen, the type. 



12 One specimen measured by Danforth, loc. cit. 



13 One specimen, from Guadeloupe Island. 

 " Type. 



