JUNE 9, 1899 VoL. I, PP. 49-51 
, PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
AN UNDESCRIBED CLAPPER RAIL FROM GEORGIA 
AND EAST FLORIDA. 
BY WILLIAM BREWSTER. 
Nor long since Mr. F. M. Chapman sent me for determination 
a clapper rail which he took March 2, 1898, on the north shore 
of Dummitt’s Creek, Indian River, Florida. On comparing this 
bird with a series of fourteen specimens which I collected at St. 
Mary’s, Georgia, in March and April, 1877 and 1878, I find that 
it matches some of them so closely as to leave no doubt that it 
belongs tothe same form. Hitherto I had supposed the St. Mary’s 
birds to be true cvepztans, but I now perceive that they differ very 
decidedly and, in the main, constantly from the clapper rails 
which breed from Virginia northward along the Atlantic coast. 
Of the latter my own collection furnishes only a few immature 
specimens taken at Cobb’s Island, Virginia, but Mr. Chapman 
has very kindly given me an opportunity of examining a small 
series from New York and New Jersey, belonging to the American 
Museum. This series fortunately includes several specimens in 
breeding plumage from Long Island, the type locality of A. crepz- 
tans. It shows very conclusively that the bird of the South 
