50 BREWSTER — AN UNDESCRIBED CLAPPER RAIL [Pes 
ol. 
Atlantic coast is a good subspecies, which may be named and 
characterized as follows: 
Rallus crepitans waynei,' subsp. nov. WaAyNEr’s CLAPPER 
Ral. 
Subspecific characters.— Similar to R&R. crepitans, but the general coloring 
much darker, the under parts with more ashy, the under tail coverts with fewer 
markings. 
Type, & adult, no. 4220, collection of W. Brewster, St. Mary’s, Camden 
County, Georgia, March 18, 1878, W. Brewster. 
Crown, nape, wings and tail, plain and rather pale seal brown; wing coverts, 
tertials, scapulars, upper tail coverts and feathers of the back and rump, rich 
seal brown, narrowly bordered with ashy; throat, abdomen and a short stripe 
running from the base of the upper mandible to above the eye, brownish white, 
the middle of the throat almost clear white; under tail coverts white with 
traces of dusky bars on a few of the feathers; flanks and crissum ashy brown 
with transverse bars of white. Remainder of under parts, with sides of head 
and neck, ashy, tinged with pale cinnamon on the breast. Axillars brown with 
narrow transverse bars of white. 
Wing, 5.40; tarsus, 2.15; arc of culmen from feathers, 2.48.” 
From Lallus crepitans, the form just described may be most 
readily distinguished by the sharper contrast between the light 
and dark colors of the back, the centers of the dorsal feathers 
being rich seal brown and their edges bright ashy, whereas in 
crepitans the brown is pale and somewhat olivaceous, and the ashy 
comparatively dull. Most of my specimens also have much more 
ashy beneath than is found in any of the examples of crepitans 
which I have seen, but this difference is not constant. In the 
tendency to an excess of ashy on the under parts, and to a 
scarcity or almost total absence of dark markings on the under 
tail coverts, waynez agrees closely with scoftiz. It is so evidently 
a connecting link between the latter and crefztans that it may well 
be doubted whether scoftéi should continue to stand as a full 
species. 
In this connection it is interesting to note the general resem- 
blance in color and markings which apparently exists between 
1 Named for Arthur T. Wayne of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. 
2 Measurements in inches. 
