April 2, 1910 Vou. IV, pr. 81-82 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW GALLINULE FROM THE LESSER ANTILLES. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
In the ‘ Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum,’ Vol. XXIII, 
Sharpe, as long ago as 1894, pointed out the distinguishing char- 
acters of the Lesser Antillean gallinule, expressing the opinion that 
it represented a recognizable race. 
Wholly independently, I arrived at the same conclusions, only 
finding Sharpe’s note on the subject upon looking up references, 
ete. ‘Though Sharpe spoke of this form as “The birds from the 
West Indies,” I think he really must have had in mind Lesser 
Antillean skins only. At all events our specimens from the larger 
islands — we have, in the Museum of Comparative ZoGlogy, a num- 
ber from Jamaica, Porto Rico and Grand Caman—are quite the 
same as North American examples, and strikingly different from 
the gallinule of the Lesser Antilles. As the latter appears to have 
no name, it may be known as 
Gallinula galeata cerceris subsp. nov. 
Type, from the Island of St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles, adult, no. 27,430, 
Museum of Comparative Zoédlogy. Collected in 1878 or 1879, by John 
Semper. 
