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[BaUua longirostris.] subsp. B. Ralhis crepitans Shabpb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 xxiu, 1894, 12, part (Virginia). 



IRallus] longirostris (not of Boddaert) Ootjes, Key Nortli Amer. Birds, 1872, 

 273, part. 



Rallus longirostris Coues, Clieck-list, 1874, No. 465, part ; Birds Nortliwest, 1874, 

 536, part (in synonymy) .—Pukdie, BuU. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 22 (Boston 

 Harbor, May 4, 1875) .— Bailey (H. B.), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1, 1876, 27 

 (Cobb Island, Va., breeding ; liabits) .— Bbown (N. C.),BuU. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 iv, 1879, 108 (Falmouth, Maine, 8 specimens, Oct. 10, 1866).— Scott, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 226 (Long Beach, N. J., breeding).— Beewsteb, BulL 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 62 (Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 1879).— Baibd, Bbeweb, 

 and EiDGWAT, Water Birds North Amer., I, 1884, 358, part (excl. references 

 under a. longirostris, c. saturatus, and d. caribaeus). 



BALLUS LONGIROSTRIS WAYNEI Brewster 



Wa'ine's Clappee Rail 



Adult, light phase (sexes alike). — Similar to Rallus longirostris 

 crepitans but with the sides and flanks darker — dark hair brown, 

 instead of dusky drab. Varies like crepitans in the color of the 

 margins of the dorsal feathers and in the grayness or cinnamon- 

 pink of the lower throat and breast. 



Adult, dark phase (sexes alike). — Similar to the light phase but 

 with the centers of the dorsal feathers darker — dark sepia to fuscous, 

 and the lower throat and breast, when gray, duskier and not paling 

 on the breast ; when ciimamon-buflF, slightly deeper and brighter. 



Jv/oenal (sexes alike). — Similar to the adult (either phase accord- 

 ing to the individual specimen), but the feathers of the lower back 

 and rump with no or only inconspicuous margins, making these 

 areas look imiformly dark; the outer median and greater upper 

 wing coverts tipped and subterminaUy crossed by a narrow white 

 line (this character is somewhat irregular and variable) ; the sides 

 and flanks grayer and paler than in adults and inconspicuously and 

 irregularly crossed with whitish bars, not producing the regularly 

 barred appearance of the adult flanks; abdomen more extensively 

 white. 



Naiod down. — ^Like that of Rallus longirostris crepitans, but the 

 whole upperpart more strongly glossed with dark greenish, and 

 underparts dull black, not brownish. 



Admit moZe.— Wing 135-152 (145.1) ; tail 57.5-72 (61.9) ; exposed 

 culmen 54^67.5 (62.2) ; tarsus 46.5-53.5 (48.2) ; middle toe without 

 claw 40-48 (45.4 mm.)."^ 



° Fifteen specimens, including the type, from South Carolina, Georgia, and 

 Florida. 



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