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grayish, or olivaceous marginally; primaries and secondaries mmnmy 

 brown, rather lighter on the external webs, which are narrowly mar- 

 gined with olivaceous; tertials dark brown, between clove brown and 

 sepia, broadly edged with light grayish olive and dull grayish olive; 

 primary coverts mummy brown; greater and median wing-coverts 

 between mummy brown and Front's bro^\^l, the inner ones more or 

 less broadly margined with dull grayish olive, some of the greater 

 coverts somewhat tinged with cinnamon brown, also a little spotted 

 or irregularly baiTed with ochraceous buff or whitish; lesser wing- 

 coverts Saccardo's umber; alula between mummy brown and Prout's 

 brown, sparingly and faintly barred with dull ochraceous buff, the 

 outer web of the outermost feather almost wholly of this color; sides 

 of head rather light mouse gray, the lores, together with a rather 

 narrow subocular stripe, buffy brown; a lengthened spot on lower 

 eyelid and a supraloral streak light buff; sides of neck and middle of 

 upper jugulum grayish olive, more or less mixed ^ith pale ochraceous 

 buff and light ochraceous buff; chin and upper throat dull creamy 

 white, laterally pinldsh buff; middle of lower throat pinldsh buff, 

 somewhat dulled by an admixture of pale gray; breast and lower part 

 of jugulum between cinnamon buff and pinkish cinnamon, slightly 

 dulled by a faint wash of whitish or pale grayish; abdomen dull 

 white; sides and flanks between buffy brown and hair brown, rather 

 narrowly barred with dull white; lower tail-coverts white, most of 

 the feathers heavily barred with grayish clove brown; thighs exte- 

 riorl}^ drab, faintly barred with pale dull buff, anteriorly dull grayish 

 cream color; lining of wing anteriorly mostly cinnamon brown, pos- 

 teriorly soon passing into dark hair brown, and everywhere narrowly 

 barred Math white. 



Specimens from the following localities have been examined: 



CuLEBRA Island, Puerto Rico, West Indies: Playa Sardine 

 (April 12, 1912). 



Puerto Rico: La Playita, Salinas (May 2, 1912, April 29, 1912, 

 April 30, 1912); Punta Picua, Mameyes (February 12, 1912); San 

 Juan (January 4, 1899); La Playa, Manati (July 8, 1912).'^ 



St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands: (No definite locality) (1860). 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS VAFER Wetmore 



HisPANioLAN Clapper Rail 



Rallus longirostris vafer Wetmore, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, p. 121, 

 June 29, 1928 ("Etroite, Gonave Island, Haiti"). 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Rallus longirostris limnetis, but 

 wing and tarsus longer, tail and middle toe somewhat longer; upper 

 parts in dark phase darker, averaging somewhat more olivaceous (less, 



>' Type. 



