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and under wing coverts similar, but white bars much narrower; 

 middle of abdomen and anal region dull pale buffy, the feathers 

 brownish gray beneath . . . ; under tail coverts dusky, broadly barred 

 or banded with white, the anterior feathers much mixed with cin- 

 namon-buff; upper mandible dusky brown, lower pale brown (in 

 (dried skin); iris "red-brown"; "legs and feet horn-brown" (K. E.)- 



Juvenal (sexes alike). — ^Like the adult of corresponding phase but 

 -with the lower back and rump more imiformly dark fuscous-black, 

 the margins being greatly reduced or absent ; the lower throat, sides 

 of neck, breast, and most of abdomen, sides, flanks, and thighs gray- 

 ish buffy brown, washed with ochraceous-buff on the breast and 

 neck; the flanks only slightly and irregularly barred with white; 

 thighs iadistinctly barred with grayish buff; chin and upper throat 

 clouded with grayish ochraceous-buff. 



Natal down. — Jet black with a greenish gloss, above and below ; no 

 brownish on abdomen, but the gloss very faint there. 



Adult mdle.—Wxag 135-155 (146.0) ; tail 56.5-72.0 (63.3) ; exposed 

 culmen 56-66 (61.6) ; tarsus 42-55.5 (49.8) ; middle toe without claw 

 39.5-49 (45.5 mm.)." 



Adult female.— Wing 128.5-14'5 (137) ; tail 54.5-63.5 (59.2) ; ex- 

 posed culmen 51.5-60 (55.9) ; tarsus 42-51 (45.6) ; middle toe without 

 claw 37-45 (41.9 mm.)." 



Range.-^^esident along the Gulf coast of Florida from Pensacola 

 south to Cape Sable (St. Marks, mouth of Suwannee Eiver, Cedar 

 Keys, Anclote Keys, Tarpon Springs, Clearwater, Tampa Bay, Char- 

 lotte Harbor, Westbay, Horseshoe Point, Goose Neck Creek, Caloosa- 

 hatchie Eiver, Port Eichey, Punta Gorda, Chassahowitzka Bay, to 

 Flamingo, West Palm Beach, and Fort Myers) ; and on the east 

 coast north to Jupiter. 



Occasional as a wanderer (not breeding) in extreme southwestern 

 Alabama (Perdido Bay). 



Ti/pe looodity. — Tarpon Springs, Fla. 



Rallus longirostris scottii Sennett, Auk, v, 1888, 305 (Tarpon Springs, w. Florida ; 

 Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist). — Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 394. — Scott, Auk, vi, 

 1889, 153 (Cedar Keys to Charlotte Harbor, w. Florida; habits; color varia- 

 ations). — Amebican Oenithologists' Union Committee, Suppl. and Check- 

 Ust, 1889, 6 (No. 211J). — Eidgwat, Man. North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1895, 

 587.— Howell, Birds Alabama, 1924, 88; ed. 2, 1928, 88 (distr. ; habits; 

 Alabama). — Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 157. — Obeeholseb, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxiv, 1937, 346 (monogr. ; crit. ; meas. ; Florida from 

 Cape Sable n. to Jupiter and Pensacola ; casual to sw. Alabama). 



Rallus longirostris scotti Bmlet, Birds Florida, 1925, 41, pi. 13 (col. flg. ; distr.; 

 Florida). — Cheistt, Auk, xlv, 1928, 287 in text (shore of Biscayne Bay, 



' Twenty-three specimens from Florida. 



' Eighteen specimens from Florida and Alabama. 



