82 BANGS — GALLINULE OF LESSER ANTILLES [?¥CE-2©. 
Characters.— Slightly smaller than Gallinula galeata galeata (Licht.) 
of North, Middle, and northern South America, and the Greater Antilles, 
and much smaller than G@. galeata garmani Allen of Bolivia, Chili and Peru. 
Much blacker than G. galeata galeata with, in adult plumage, the whole 
chest and breast dark blackish slate (nearly slate-black), scarcely paler 
than head and neck; belly very much less marked with white; white stripes 
on sides and flanks much narrower. 
Young examples are, of course, not so black as old ones; they are, how- 
ever, much blacker than continental specimens of corresponding age, and, 
in addition to this character, can be distinguished by their darker bellies, 
the feathers of this region being much less tipped and edged with white. 
The type, like all Semper’s skins, did not have the sex determined. It 
affords the following measurements: wing, 171.; tail, 68.; tarsus, 54.5; 
culmen, from a line drawn between forward corners of eyes, 37. mm. 
