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Rallus orepita/ns coryi Kilet, Auk. xxii, Oct. 1905, 352; in Shattuck, Bahama 

 Islands, 1905, 360 (New Providence, Andros, and Eleuthera Islands ; habits ; 

 crit). — Todd and Wobthington, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vii, 1911, 412 (meas., 

 crit. ; coJors of soft parts).— Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914', 22 

 (range). 



[Rallus longirostrisi subsp. 7 Rallus cariiaeus (not Rallus longirostris car*- 

 iaeus Ridgway) Shabpe, Cat Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 13, part (In 

 synonymy; Bahamas). 



Rallus longirostris corrius Obebholseb, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., Ixxxiv, 1937, 329 

 (monogr., crit.; meas.; permanent resident in central and northern Ba- 

 hama Islands, north to Abaco Island and Berry Islands; west to Andros 

 Island and the Keys nearby; south to Bagged Island; east to Watling 

 Island, New Providence Island, and Eleuthera Island). 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS CARIBAEUS RidewBj 



Caeibbean Clappeb Rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Similar to that of Rallus longirostris crepi- 

 tans but generally more ruf escent above and below ; the top of head 

 and back of neck and the centers of the feathers of the upperparts 

 of the body darker — snuff brown to sepia, the edges of the latter 

 grayish tawny olive ; chin and throat suffused with pale buffy ; lower 

 throat, breast, and upper middle abdomen somewhat more ochraceous- 

 cinnamon; flanks as in the palest specimens of crepituns. 



Jiuvenal. — Not recorded. 



Natal down. — ^Not recorded. 



Adult male. — ^Wing 148.5-150; tail 60-66.5; fexposed csulmen 

 68.5-62 ; tarsus 53-55 ; middle toe without claw 48-50 mm.*^ 



Adult female. — ^Wing 142.5; tail 61.5; exposed culmen 55; tarsus 

 49 ; middle toe without claw 44 mm.*' 



Range. — ^Resident in and confined to the mangrove swampg of 

 Jamaica (Great Salt Pond ; near Spanish Town ; Passage Fort ; Crab- 

 pond). 



Type locality. — Near Spanish Town, Jamaica. 



Rallus longirostris (not of Boddaert) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 364. — 



SciATEB and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 444, part 

 R[anus'] longirostris Newton (A. and B.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 114. 

 Rallus crepitans (not of Gmelin) Sclateb, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, 81 



(Jamaica). — ^Aibeecht, Joum. ftir Orn., x, 1862, 206 (Jamaica). 

 1 Rallus elegans (not of Audubon) Mabch, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1864, 69 (Jamaica). 

 [Rallus Umgirostris'i c. var. cariteeus Ridgwat, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, v, 1880, 



140, part (meas.). 

 [Rallus longirostris'] d. cariboBus Baibd, Beeweb, and Ridgwat, Water Birds 



North Amer., i, 1884, 359, part (synonymy). 



'Two specimens. 

 ' One specimen. 



