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RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS LEUCOPHAEUS Todd 



Isle of Fixes Clapper Rail 



Rallus longirostris leucophaeus Todd, Proc. Biol. See. Washington, vol. 26, p. 174, 

 Aug. 8, 1913 ("Majagua River, Isle of Pines"). 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Rallus longirostris cubanus, but 

 wing averaging somewhat shorter; upper parts more graA^sh (less 

 brownish), and averaging somewhat lighter; jugulum, sides, flanks, and 

 crissum more grayish (less rufescent), and the middle of the abdomen 

 much paler cinnamon buft', barely tinged with this color, or white, 

 and the white bars on flanks broader. 



Description. — Type, adult male, Carnegie Museum no. 39717, 

 Majagua River, Isle of Pines, November 7, 1912; G. A. Link, original 

 number, 262. 



Forehead, crown, and occiput fuscous, many of the feathers of the 

 forehead and crown with stift", shiny, black shafts; hind-neck between 

 hair brown and deep mouse gray, becoming on posterior portion like 

 the pileum, and a little, but narrowly and inconspicuoulsy, streaked 

 with light dull gray edgings of the feathers; feathers of the back 

 medially clove brown, of the scapulars fuscous black, all margined, 

 but more broadly on posterior portions, with light mouse gra}" rump 

 and upper tail-coverts clove brown, -with very broad mouse-gray 

 feather margins; rectrices medially fuscous black, the outer margins 

 widely mouse gray verging to deep mouse gra}^, the inner margins 

 clove brown; primaries and secondaries brown, between clove brown 

 and bister, the inner margins paler, the outer edges bister; tertials like 

 the scapulars; greater wing-coverts olive brown, with narrow more or 

 less irregular whitish and buffy bars; median and lesser coverts be- 

 tween Saccardo's umber and sepia, basally rather more tawny, the 

 inner ones somewhat grayish; alula between benzo brown and fuscous, 

 the two long feathers irregularly barred with cream color and cream 

 buff; lores and rictal region hair brown; supraloral streak dull cream 

 buff; and elongated spot on lower eyelid dull white; remainder of the 

 sides of head, together with the sides of neck, gray, between pale 

 mouse gray and smoke gray; chin and throat white; middle of lower 

 throat dull white, very slightly washed with buft'; sides of jugulum 

 gray like the sides of the neck but a little darker and slightly washed 

 with buff; middle of jugulum dull pale ochraceous buff; breast and 

 middle of abdomen grajdsh cream white washed laterally with pale 

 ochraceous buff, and shading into the buff of jugulum on the anterior 

 portion of the breast; flanks and sides of bod}^ somewhat light chaetura 

 drab, rather narrowly barred with white; lower tail-coverts white, all 

 but the longer lateral feathers broadly barred with the chaetura 

 drab of the flanks, these dark bars much wider than the white inter- 

 spaces; lining of wing anteriorly fuscous, posteriorly shading into the 



