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Adult female.— Wing 129.5-146.5 (138.4); taU 56-63.5 (69.9) ; ex- 

 posed culmen 53-62.5 (58.7) ; tarsus 43.5-50 (46.7) ; middle toe with- 

 out claw 41.5^7.5 (44.4 mm.).« 



Range.— Resident in coastal marshes from South Carolina (Mount 

 Pleasant; Charleston; Frogmore) south to Georgia (Savannah; St. 

 Catherines Island; Blackbeard Island; Darien; St. Simon Island; 

 Cumberland; St. Marys; and St. Germain) and Florida (along the 

 northeast coast from Amelia Island to Merritt Island— Amelia 

 Island, Matanzas Inlet, New Smyrna; Dummitt Creek, Pallesier 

 Creek, and northern Brevard County). 



Type locality. — St. Marys, Camden County, Ga. 



IRallus crepitans (not of Gmelin?) Tatloe, Ibis, 1862, 129 (Florida).— Auubn, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, ii, 1871, 357 (e. Florida). 



Rallus crepitans (not of GmeUn) Coues, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat Hist., xii, 1868, 

 124 (South Carolina.)— Sennett, Auk. vi, 1889, 163, 165, part— Phiupp, 

 Auk, xxvii, 1910, 315 (Charleston Harbor, str., S. O., breeding). — ^American 

 Oenithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, 211, part. 



[Rallus longirostris] b. var. crepitans Ridgwat, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, t, 1880, 

 140, part. 



Rallus longirostris crepitans Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 201 

 (Cat. North Ajner. Birds, No. 571), part; Nom. North Amer. Birds, 1881, 

 No. 571, part. — Cotjbs, Check List, ed. 2, 1882, No. 673, part.— Amebican 

 Oenithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 221, part. 



R[allus~\ longirostris crepitans Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 672, 

 part. — Ridgwat, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 137, part. 



{Rallus longirostris'^ b. crepitans Baibd, Beewee, and Ridgwat, Water Birds 

 North Amer., i, 1884, 358, 360, part. 



IRallus longirostrisi subsp. B. Rallus crepitans Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiii, 1894, 12, part (Georgia). 



[Rallus'i longirostris (not of Boddaert) Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 273, 

 part. 



Rallus longirostris Coues, Check-list 1874, No. 465, part ; Birds Northwest, 1874, 

 536, part (in synonomy). — Baibd, BbbwEb, and Ridgwat, Water Birds North 

 Amer., i, 1884, 358, part. 



Rallus crepitans waynei Beewsteh, Proc. New England Zool. Club, i, 1899, 50 (St 

 Marys, Camden County, Ga. ; coU. Wm. Brewster). — ? Bishop, Auk, xviii, 

 1901, 265 (Pea Island, N. C. ; fresh colors of nude parts [=crepita»i«f]).— 

 Watne, Birds South Carolina, 1910, 36 (resident along coast; habits). — 

 American Oenithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 3, 1910, 102. — Cookb, U. S. 

 Dept Agr. BuU. 128, 1914, 21, fig. 9, map (range and migr. routes).— 

 Ekiohsen, Auk, xxxvi, 1919, 384 (Liberty County, Ga., breeding) ; Wils. Bull., 

 xxxiii, 1921, 74 (Chatham County, Ga., breeding; habits). — Holt and SunoN, 

 Ann. Carnegie Mus., xvi, 1926, 424 (habits, s. Florida). — Bangs, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 167 (type specimen in Mus. Comp. Zool., crit.). 



Rallus longirostris waynei Bailbt, Birds Florida, 1925, 41, pi. 23 (col. fig. ; distr. ; 

 Florida).- Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 135, 1927, 290 (life hist.; monogr.).— 

 Ameeioan Oenithologists' Union, Check-list North Amer. Birds, ed. 4, 19S1, 

 96.— Howell, Florida Bird Life, 1932, 204 (genl. ; distr.; Florida).- Pbtbes, 



' Sixteen specimens, from South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. 



