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white to buff; the breast from pale ochraceous, ahnost without a 

 pinkish cinnamon tinge, to pinkish cinnamon; the jugulum is some- 

 tmies gray on the median area and sometimes without gray even on 

 the sides; the flanks range from very hght gray to rather deep grayish 

 brown; the lower tail-coverts are either heavily or lightly barred or 

 spotted; the bars on the flanks range in width from 1.2 to 4 mm, 

 averaging about 3 mm; and the edgings of the back, scapulars, and 

 the rest of the upper surface vary from almost pure gray to olive 

 gray, the centers of the feathers from light olive brown to bister, and 

 even occasionally to clove brown. There are about four fairly well- 

 defined color phases, although they are not so well marked as in 

 Rallus longirostris saturatus. There is a light grayish phase with gray 

 jugulum; a light grayish phase, with cinnamon-buff jugulum; a dark 

 olivaceous phase with a grayish jugulum ; and a dark olivaceous phase 

 with a cinnamon-buff jugulum. In the light phases the upper parts 

 are relatively uniform, because of less difference between the centers 

 of the feathers and the edgings. In the light grayish phase the upper 

 parts have rather pure gray edgings, but in the dark olivaceous phase 

 the edgings are olive gray. 



Individual differences in the ju venal plumage are almost as con- 

 spicuous as in the adults, the upper parts varying from purely grayish 

 to dull brownish, the lower parts from almost pure white on the 

 throat and abdomen to a strongly buffy or cinnamomeous or even 

 pinkish tone. 



The following specimens have been examined by the writer: 



Connecticut: New Haven (September 10, 1884); Stamford (June 

 17, 1893); West Haven (May 30, 1904). 



Florida: Ameha Island (January 11, 1906, September 6, 7, and 13, 

 1906). 



Georgia: St. Marys; Sapelo Island (December 16, 1887); 

 Savannah. 



Maryland: Point Lookout (September 8, 1880). 



Massachusetts: Ipswich (October 20, 1910). 



New Jersey: Tuckerton (June 18, 1918, nestling); Cape May 

 (May — , 1842, May 6, 1880, May 15, 1877, May 20, 1881, May 22, 

 1882, May 14, 1881); Avalon (September 22, 1902); Atlantic City 

 (July 23, 1893, May 14, 1881, October 2, 1894); South Amboy (May 

 12, 1879); Brigantine (June 3, 1882). 



New York: Amityville (June 28, 1887, September 3, 1898); 

 Somers Point (August 29, 1887); Hempstead Bay (September 13, 

 1907);Freeport (May 30, 1913, July 10, 1913, August 9, 16, and 18, 

 1913, July 11, 1901); near New York City (August 27, 1908, August 

 29, 1909). 



