1. RALLTT3. l',i 



d. $ juv. sk. Cobb's Island, Virginia, July 23 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{P. L. Jouy : Hensh. Coll.). 

 e,f. Pull. sk. Cobb's Island, July (//. W. Hen- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



shaw). 

 (J. Pull.sk. Bone Island, Viri^iiiia, July (/i. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Riihiwaij : Hensh. Coll.). 

 h. Ad. sk. Georgia (8m. no. 2;371G). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. Corpus Christi, Texas, Dec. 5 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(F. B. Armstrong). 



Subsp. y. Eallus caribseus. 



Rail us longirostris {iicc Bodd.), D'Orh. in Rnmo7ide In Sagras Hist. 



Nat. Cuba, Aves, p. 2()0 (l8;3t)) ; Goxse, B. Jamaica, p. 364 (1847) ; 



A. Sf E. Neict. Ibis, l8o9, p. l>UO (S. Croix) ; C'a.s.f. Froc. Phi/ad. 



Acad. 1860, p. 378 (S. Thomas) ; Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 491 (18GG) ; 



A. ^ E. Neiot. Handb. Jamaica, p. 114 (1884) ; Cory, B. Bahamas, 



p. 176 (1890). 

 Rallus crepitans (nee Gm.), Gundl. J. f. O. 1856, p. 427 (Cuba) ; 



Bryant, Proc. Bast. Soc. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 122 (1859 : Bahamas) ; 



Brewer, t. c. p. 308 (1860 : Cuba) ; Sal. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 81 (Ja- 

 maica) ; All>recht,J.f. 0. 1862, p. 206; Gundl. Oni. Cuba, p. 298 



(1876); Laicr. Proc. U.S. Nut. Mus. i. p. 450 (Guadeloupe; 



Martinique), p. 461 (1878 : Guadeloupe) ; id. t. c. p. 487 (Barbuda ; 



Antigua). 

 Rallus elegans (wee Aud.), March, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1864, p. G9 



(Jamaica). 

 Rallus longirostris, var. caribaeus, Ridgio. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. 



p. 140 (1880); Baird, Brewer, ^ Ridyw. Water-B. N. Amer. i. 



p. 359 (1884). 

 Rallus longirostris caribaeus, Cory, List B. Went Ind. i. p. 29 ( 1885) ; 



id. Auk, v. p. 53 (1888) ; Sennett, t. c. p. 19 ; Chapm. t. c. p. 394 ; 



Cory, B. W. Ind. p. 254 (1889) ; Scott, Auk, ix. p. II (1892 : 



Jamaica). 

 Rallus coryi, Maynard, Amer. Evch. «§• Mart (! !), Boston, Jan. & Feb. 



1887 (teste Cory) ; Cory, B. W. Ind. p. 254 (1889) ; Northrop, 



Auk, viii. p. 77 (1891 : Andros Island, Bahamas) ; Cory, t. c. 



pp. 291, 295 (Nassau Isl. ; Berry Isl. ; New Providence; Caicos 



Islands) ; Maynard, Contr. Sci. i. p. 39 (1890). 



Adult. Similar to 7^. crepitans, but everywhere much paler, the 

 centres to the feathers of the upper surface being light brown, the 

 edges light ashy. Total length 15 inches, culmen 2"05, wing 6, 

 tail 2'5, tarsus 2, middle toe and claw 2*2. 



Hah. West Indies— Baliamas, Jamaica, S. Croix, S. Thomas, 

 Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbuda, Antigua. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



J. Gould, Esq. 



Philip Gosse, Esq. [0.]. 



Subsp. I. Rallus saturates. (Plate I.) 



Rallus crepitans (nee Gm.), G. C. Tai/lor, Ibi.<, 18t!2, p. 129 (Florida) ; 



Allen, Bull. Mus. C. Z. ii. p. 357 (1871). 

 Ilallus longirostris, var. saturatus, Henshaiv, MSS. ; Ridgw. Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, v. p. 140 (1880). 



