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brown, culminal ridge and tip blackish; feet pale brownish orange 

 or olive-gray." 



Jwvenal male (no young female seen, but probably similar). — 

 Similar to that of BoIIms longirostris crepitans, but generally paler, 

 the upperparts differing as do the respective adults ; abdomen white^ 

 the dusky mottling and clouding restricted to the sides and flanks; 

 only the lower throat and upper breast with a faint pale pinkish 

 buff wash, laterally suffused with light grayish. 



Natal down. — Unrecorded. 



AdvZt male.—'Wmg 137-150 (146) ; tail 53.5-67 (61.3) ; exposed 

 culmen 53-65 (59.5) ; tarsus 45-53.5 (49.4) ; middle toe without claw 

 44.5-49.8 (47.8 mm.) .«" 



AdvZt female.— Wmg 128.5-141 (134.7) ; tail 54^2 (57.5) ; exposed 

 culmen 52-60.5 (55.3) ; tarsus 42-50 (46.9) ; middle toe without claw 

 89.5-45 (43.2 mm.). «i 



Range. — Eesident in the mangrove swamps of the Bahama Islands 

 (Andros Island; Watling Island; Berry Island; New Providence; 

 Abaco Island ; Ragged Island ; Eleuthera Island) . 



Type locality. — ^Island off the south shore of Andros Island, 

 Bahamas. 



Rallus crepitans (not of Gmelin) Betant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vii, 

 1859, 122 (Nassau?, Bahamas). — ^Aibbecht, Joum. ffir Orn., ix, 1861, 56 

 (Bahamas). 

 [Rallus'i longirostris crepitans Coet, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. 

 ed., 1886, 29 (Bahamas). 



Rallus longirostris crepitans Coet, Auk, v, 1888, 53 (Bahama references) ; 

 Birds West Indies, 1889, 254 (Bahamas). 



Rallus longirostris (not of Boddaert) C!obt, Birds Bahama Islands, 1880, 176 

 (New Providence). 



Rallus corrius [typog. error] Maynabd, Amer. Exch. and Mart, Jan. 15, 1887, 69. 



Rallus coryi Matnaed, Amer. Exch. and Mart, Feb. 5, 1887, 69 (Andros Island, 

 Bahamas; coU. C. J. Maynard) ; Oontr. Sci., i, 1890, 39. — Coet, Auk, v, 1888, 

 53 (Andros Island) ; viii, 1891, 294 (New Providence Island), 295 (Berry 

 Islands) ; Birds West Indies, 1889, 254 (Andros Is.) ; Introd. to Rev. Ed. 

 Birds Bahamas, 1890, no paging; Cat West Indian Birds, 1892, 137. — 

 Sennett, Auk, vl, 1889, 165 (diagnosis). — Noethkop, Auk, viii, 1891, 77 

 (Andros Island) ; descr. eggs).— Chapman, Amer. Nat, xxv, 1891, 530 (An- 

 dros Island). — BoNHOTE, Ibis, 1903, 308 (Andros Island; crit).— Allen 

 (G. M.), Auk, xxii, 1905, 122 (Great Abaco Island) .—Allen, Auk, viii, 1891, 

 77, in text (Andros Island ; crit) . 



[Rallus^ coryi Shaspe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 93. 



Rallus longirostris coryi Coet, Cat West Indian Birds, 1892, 9, 91, 126, 137 

 (Abaco; Berry Islands; New Providence; Abaco. ) .—Peters, Check-list 

 Birds of World, ii, 1934, 158. 



i2[o?Z««] l[ongirostris^ coi-yi Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 87, 88 in text 

 (Bahama Islands). 



^ Seven specimens, including the type. 



"Ten specimens 



