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■ff. Chin and upper throat pure white. 

 ff. Bill stouter, height at base almost one-third length of exposed 



culmen Rallus longirostris crassirostris (extralimital)" 



gg. Bill less stout ; height at base much less than one-third length 

 of exposed culmen. 

 h. Sides of neck, lower throat, and breast with no grayish 

 wash — ^pale ochraceous-bufE to light pinkish cinnamon, 

 i. Upperparts with a decided olive-brownish wash. 



E.allus longirostris yumanensis (p. 77) 



/!. Upperparts with no decided olive-brown wash ; edges of 



feathers gray to olive-gray. 



/. Abdomen largely whitish ; flank color restricted to extreme 



sides Rallus longirostris nayaritensis (p. 80) 



Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 536, footnote, part (in synonymy) ; Salvin, Ibis, 

 1886, 176 (Brit. Guiana) ; Sennett, Auk, vi, 1889, 165, part (diagnosis; range) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. IHiis., xxili, 1894, 10, part (Berbice, Guiana) ; Berlepsch, 

 Nov. Zoo]., XV, 1908, 299 (Cayenne). — IRaUus] longirostris Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 

 i, pt. ii, 1789, 718; Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 759; Sclater and Salvin, Nom. 

 Av. Neotr., 1873, 139, part; Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 273, part; 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, 1, 1899, 93, part ; Brabourne and Chubb, Birds South America, 

 i, 1912, 21 part (Brit. Guiana ; Cayenne). — [Rallus longirostris'i a. var. longirostris 

 Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, July 1880, 139, 140, part (diagnosis; syno- 

 nymy). — [Rallus longirostris] a. longirostris Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water 

 Birds North Amer., i, 1884, 358, 360, part ; American Ornithologists' Union, Check- 

 list, ed. 3, 1910, 103. — [Aramus] longirostris Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 59, No. 

 10418. — [Limnopardalis] longirostris Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. 

 Orn., 1890, 320. — R[allus] crepitans (not of Gmelin) Cabanis, in Schomburgk's 

 Reis. Britisch Guiana, iii, 1848, 760. — Rallus longirostris longirostris Peters, 

 Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 159. 



"Rallus longirostris crassirostris. — Rallus longirostris (not of Boddaert) 

 Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Thiere Bras., Aves, ii, 1856, 381 ; Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 ZooL Soc. London, 1868, 444, part (monogr.) ; Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 

 New York, x, 1871, 19 (Bahia, BrazU; crit.) ; Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 

 536, part (in synonymy); (?) Forbes, Ibis, 1881, 3-58 (Pernambuco, Brazil); 

 Sennett, Auk, vi, 1889, 165, part; Koenigswald, Journ. fiir Orn., 1896, 392 (Sao 

 Paulo, s. Brazil). — [Rallus] longirostris Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., iv, Abth., 1870, 458; 

 Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 273, part; Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 

 Neotr., 1873, 139, part. — [Rallus longirostris] a. longirostris Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, Water Birds North Amer., i, 1884, 858, 360, part. — [Rallus longirostris] 

 a. var. longirostris Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 139, part. — Rallus 

 crassirostris Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New Tork, x, 1871, 19, 20 (Bahia, 

 Brazil; coll. G. N. Lawrence). — [Rallus] crassirostris Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 

 93; Brabourne and Chubb, Birds South America, i, 1912, 21 (Pernambuco to Sao 

 Paulo, e. Brazil). — R[allus] longirostris crassirostris Helhnayr, Nov. Zool., xiii, 

 1906, 521 (Bahia, Pernambuco, Sao Paulo, and Iguape, e. Brazil.) — [Rallus] 

 longirostris crassirostris Ihering (H. and R.), Aves Brazil, 1907, 26 (Sao Paulo; 

 Bahia; Pernambuco). — [Rallus longirostris.] subsp. a. Rallus crassirostris 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 11, (Bahia). — Rallus longirostris 

 crassirostris Hellmayr, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser., xii, No. 18, 1929, 480 

 (Maranhao).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 159. 



