C 2 Cory on the Birds oj the West Indies. [Jimuiiry 



Since the publication of tlie 'Birds of Haiti and San Domingo,' 

 1 have examined several specimens of ynzca//^/ from Cuba, and 

 they agree exactly with the San Domingo bird, but all are con- 

 siderably larger and brighter than specimens of y. gymitosto- 

 7na; the coloration of the wattles is, I believe, also dirterent. 

 I have, therefore, restored the West Indian bird to the rank ot a 

 species pending further investigation. 



Family RALLID^. 



Genus Rallus Linn. 



Rallus LiNN^us, Sjst. Nat. I, p. 261, 1766. 



/ 

 Rallus maculatus Bodd. 



Rallus maculatus Bodd. ex Buft". PI. Enl. p. 775 (17S3). — Schleg. Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 13 (1865). — Scl. & Sal. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 



444; ib. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 139 (1873). — Cory, List Bds. W. 



I. p. 29, (1885). 

 Rallus variegatus Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 718 (1788^ — Burm. Syst. Ueb. 



Ill, p. 382.— D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 261 



(1840).— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 (i860). 

 Ai-amides maculatus Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 23. — Gray. Gen. Bds. p. 594 



(1844-49)- 

 Pardirallus variegatus Bp. Compt. Rend. XLIII, p. 599. — Gray, Handl. 



Bds: III, p. 56 (1871). 

 Lim7iopardalus variegatus Gundi^. J. f. O. 1S56, p. 428; il>. Repert. Fisico- 



Nat. Cuba, I, p. 361 (1866) ; il>. J. f. O. 1S75, p. 357. 



Sp. Char. — General plumage dull black; feathers on the back heavily 

 marked with brown ; whole body heavily blotched and mottled with 

 white; rump brown ; thighs smoky brown, marked with white above ; 

 chin nearly white; legs (in skin) pale yellow; bill green; a spot of 

 scarlet on the base of the lower mandible. 



Length (skin), 12; wing, 4.75; tail, 3; tarsus, 1.50; bill, 1.95. 

 Recorded from Cuba. 



^ Rallus elegans Aud. 



Rallus elegans Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, p. 27 (1835). — Gundl. J. f. O. 1856, 



p. 427 (Cuba). — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 



(i860) (Cuba).— GuKUL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 360 (1866) ; 



ib. J. f. O. 1S75, p. 355 (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 29 (18S5). 



Accidental in Cuba. 



