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Pileum and hind-neck sepia brown, the latter somewhat streaked 

 with narrow dull buff feather edgings; scapulars, interscapulars, and 

 tertials with centers of clove brown and margins of clear medium 

 gray, giving a conspicuously streaked appearance; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts dark brown (between clove brown and sepia), broadly 

 margined with dull olive gray; tail-feathers rather light bister brown, 

 with central stripes of clove brown, broadest on the two middle pairs ; 

 primaries and secondaries sepia, the outer superior margins lighter; 

 alula light bister brown, barred on exterior webs of feathers with 

 cinnamon; upper wing-coverts exteriorly light bister brown, the 

 greater and median series interiorly becoming grayish with clove 

 brown shaft streaks, the greater coverts with a few narrow bars and 

 speckles of whitish ; sides of head olive gray, with a white supraloral 

 stripe and small lengthened subocular spot; sides of throat dull buff; 

 sides of jugulum wood brown, inconspicuously streaked ^\■ith dull 

 brown; chin and throat white; breast and center of jugulum light 

 cinnamon, the middle of breast whitish; abdomen dull white; sides of 

 body brownish gray, with broad shaft streaks of bister; flanks dark 

 brownish gray, rather broadly barred with white; under tail-coverts 

 white, broadly barred with dark brownish gray ; thighs anteriorly dull 

 white, posteriorly mouse gray; lining of wing dark brownish gray, 

 narrowly barred wdth white. 



Measurements. — Adult female^*': Wing, 141.5 mm; tail, 57; exposed 

 culmen, 57; tarsus, 48; middle toe without claw, 43. 



Type locality. — Ycacos Lagoon, British Honduras. 



Geographic distribution. — Permanent resident in eastern British 

 Honduras. 



Remarks. — This new race is similar to Rallus longirostris corrius of 

 the Bahama Islands but decidedly darker on the upper parts, par- 

 ticularly the centers of the feathers on the mantle. It is similar to 

 Rallus longirostris caribaeus but has the upper parts, including the 

 crown, much darker, the dark centers of the feathers being mostly 

 black instead of olive-brown. 



The only specimen of this new race that the writer has seen is the 

 type, but the characters exhibited by this specimen are such that it 

 apparently warrants separation as a new race. It appears to be 

 confined to the coast region of eastern British Honduras. 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS TENUIROSTRIS Ridgway 



Mexican Clapper Rail 



Rallus elegans var. tenuirostris Ridgway (Lawrence MS.), Ainer. Nat., vol. 8, 

 no. 2, p. ill, Feb. 1874 ("City of Mexico"). 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Rallus longirostris cubanus, but 

 tail and middle toe averaging somewhat longer; upper parts, particu- 



w One specimen, the type. 



