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rump ; the outer upper wing coverts subterminally barred and tipped 

 very narrowly with white; in general like the juvenal of crepitans 

 but darker and more richly colored. 



Natal down.— Above deep black with a greenish gloss; below 

 brownish black with a very faint greenish gloss, which is lacking 

 on the middle of the abdomen, which is the brownest part. 



Adidt male.— Wing 140.5-163 (150.4) ; tail 58-68 (63.6) ; exposed 

 culmen 54-69 (61.7) ; tarsus 47-55 (50.9) ; middle toe without claw 

 43-52.5 (47.6 mm.). =^ 



Adidt female.— Wing 131-154 (141.3) ; tail 56-66 (60.9) ; exposed 

 culmen 55.5-64 (59.9); tarsus 42-52.5 (47.7); middle toe without 

 claw 37-47 (43.9 mm.). "^ 



Range. — ^Resident in the salt marshes of the Gulf coast from south- 

 western Alabama (Perdido Bay, Grande Batture Island, Bayou La 

 Batre) west through Mississippi (Biloxi, Bay St. Louis, Gulfport) ; 

 Louisiana (New Orleans, Grand Island, Vermillion Bay, Octave Pass 

 and Main Pass in the Mississippi Delta, Timbalier Island, Petite 

 Anse Island, Raccoon Pass, Lake Borgne) ; and Texas (Galveston, 

 Port Lavaca, Corpus Christi, Tarpon, Rockport, Peat Island in 

 Laguna Madre, Sabine, southeast of Houston, BrownsviUe). 



Type locality. — The Rigolets lighthouse between Lake Pontchar- 

 train and Lake Borgne, La. 



IBxillui longirostHs] d. var. aaturatus Bidgwat, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 

 140 (Lake Borgne, La. ; type now in coU. Brit. Mus. ; ex "Rallus longiros- 

 tris saturatus Henshaw, Ms."). 



Rallus longirostris saturatus Ridqwat, Free. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 201 (Cat. 

 North Amer. Birds, No. 571a.) ; Nom. North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 571a. — 

 Coiws, Check-list, ed. 2, 1882, No. 675. — ^Amebican Oenithologists' Union, 

 Cheek-list, 1886, No. 211o, part (Louisiana) ; ed. 4, 1931, 96.— Geegoet, Auk, 

 xxxvlii, 1921, 455 (Gulfport, Harrison County, Miss., Jan. 18, 1919).— 

 HowEii, Birds Alabama, 1924, 86; ed. 2, 1928, 86 (distr.; habits; Ala- 

 bama).— Baimy, Birds Florida, 1925, 41 pi. 23 (col. flg. ; distr.; Florida).— 

 [Abthub], Birds Louisiana, 1931, 236 (descr. ; status in Louisiana). — 

 Baimt and Wbioht, Wils. Bull, xllii, 1931, 194 (Snake Island; Alexander 

 Island; Chenier au Tigr6, La.). — Petees, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 

 1934, 158.— Obeeholsee, Proc! U. S. Nat Mus., Ixxxiv, 1937, 344 (monogr. ; 

 crit. ; permanent resident from sw. Alabama west to s. Mississippi, 

 s. Louisiana and s. c. Texas; casual to w. Florida) ; Bird Life Louisiana, 

 1938, 200 (common in Gulf coast marshes; many locality records). 



Rlallus] llongirostris'i saturatus Cotjes, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 

 672. 



Blallus] longirostris saturatus Ridgwat, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 137, 

 part (Louisiana). 



[Rallus longirostris'] c. saturatus Baibd, Beewee, and Ridgwat, Water Birds, 

 North Amer., 1, 1884, 359. 



"Twenty-three specimens from liouisiana and Texas. 



" Sixteen specimens from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. 



