266 RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS. 
NOTE XXXVII. 
NOTES ON THE RAILS OF THE LEYDEN MUSEUM, 
BY 
R. BOWDLER SHARPE, LL. D. 
May 1893. 
During my visit to Leyden in April of the present 
year, I had the pleasure of examining carefully the collec- 
tion of Rallidae as it had been arranged by the late 
Professor Schlegel in the year 1865 (cf. Cat. Mus. Pays- 
Bas, Vol. V, pp. 1—79). The following notes, which form 
a small commentary on Schlegel’s Catalogue, may be of 
some use to future workers on the Mallidae. 
Rallus longirostris. 
Rallus longirostris Bodd.: Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
KKT p.. 10; 
On p. 12 of Schlegel’s ‘Catalogue’ four specimens are 
enumerated under the above name. The true PR. longiros- 
tris is from Guiana, and the only specimen is n°. 3, an 
adult bird from Cayenne. N°. 1 from New Jersey is Ral- 
lus crepitans, Gm. N°. 4 from »Brazil’’ is Rallus elegans, 
Aud. and the locality is certainly erroneous. 
N°. 2 an adult female bird from Surinam is a very cu- 
rious and interesting specimen, and appears to be Rallus 
caribseus of Ridgway (Cf. Cat. B. XXIII, p. 13). It differs 
from true Rallus longirostris in being nearly uniform above, 
in having very light ashy flanks with narrow white bars, 
and in being ashy on the breast and neck instead of 
light tawny-colour. From true R. crepitans it does not differ 
so much, but is more uniform above and has lighter flanks, 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
