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c. Cheeks and postocular area with a brownish wash, or, if grayish, not 

 bluish or ashy gray. 

 d. Flanks pinkish umber, narrowly and indistinctly barred with rusty 



white to pale cinnamon Ballus longirostris tenuirostris (p. 81) 



dd. Flanks not pinkish umber. 

 e. Breast less pinkish — light ochraceous-bufl. 

 f. Wing very short, less than 130 mm. 



Kallus longirostris cypereti (extrallmital) " 

 ff. Wing longer 150-170 mm_ Ballus longirostris obsoletus (p. 73) 

 ee. Breast more pinkish — ^pinkish cinnamon to pinkish orange-cinnamon. 

 /. Dark centers of dorsal feathers dark sepia to fuscous. 



Ballus longirostris levipes (p. 75) 

 ff. Dark centers of dorsal feathers dark fuscous to fuscous-black. 



Ballus longirostris beldingl (p. 78) 

 CO. Cheeks and postocular area generally bluish or ashy gray. 

 d. BiU very long ; the exposed culmen over 73 mm. in length. 



Ballus longirostris manglecola (p. 70) 

 dd. Bill shorter ; exposed culmen less than 73 mm. in length, 

 e. With breast and lower throat only very slightly washed with pale 

 pinkish buff, and with an ashy tinge. 

 f. Dark areas of dorsal feathers paler — buffy brown 



Ballus longirostris coryi (p. 62) 

 ff. Dark areas of dorsal feathers darker — ^fuscous. 



Ballus longirostris leucophaeus, pale phase (p. 66) 

 ee. With breast and lower throat cinnamon-bufC to light pinkish cinnamon, 

 and even slightly darker. 

 f. Chin and upper throat slightly washed with pale pinkish buff. 

 g. Dark areas of dorsal feathers sepia to dark clove brown. 

 h. Dark areas of dorsal feathers darker — dark clove brown 



Ballus longirostris pelodramus (extrallmital)" 

 hh. Dark areas of dorsal feathers paler — sepia. 



Ballus longirostris longirostris (extrallmital)" 

 ffg. Dark areas of dorsal feathers Saccardo's umber. 



Ballus longirostris caribaeus (p. 64) 



" Ballus longirostris cypereti. — Rallus cypereti Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1877, 747 (Santa Lucia, Tumbez, nw. Peru; coll. Warsaw Mus.) ; Om. 

 P6rou, iii, 1886, 315. — [Ballus'] cypereti Brabourne and Chubb, Birds South 

 America, i, 1912, 21 (w. Ecuador; nw. Peru). — R[alliis] longirostris cypereti 

 Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., sill, 1906, 52 (Vacqueria, w. Ecuador; Tumbez, nw. 

 Peru). — Rallus longirostris (not of Boddaert) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiii, 1894, 10, part (Santa Lucia, w. Peru). — [Rallus'\ longirostris Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, 93, part (Peru). — Rallus longirostris cypereti Chapman, BuU. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Iv, 1926, 174 (Ecuador) ; Peters, Checklist Birds of 

 World, ii, 1934, 159. 



" Ballus longirostris pelodramus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxiv, 

 1937, 323 (Caronl Swamp, Trinidad). 



" Ballus longirostris longirostris. — Rallus longirostris Boddaert, Tabl. PI. 

 En]., 1783, -52 (Cayenne; based on r&le d lm\g hec, de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. 

 Enl., pi. 849) ; Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 433; VielUot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 

 xxviii, 1819, 557; Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 536; Eeichenbach, Handb., Puli- 

 carlae, 1851, pi. 106, figs. 1150, 1151 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays. Bas, v. No. 30, Uvr. 7, 

 186,5, 11; Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 444, part (monogr.) ; 



