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RaUus longirostris c. caribcsus Baibd, Bbewkb and Ridgway, Water Birds North 



Amer., i, 1884', 360, part (Jamaica). 

 Rallus longirostris var. caribaeus Reichenow and Sohaix)w, Joum. fflr Om., 



xxix, 1881, 72 (reprint of orlg. descr.). 

 IRallus] longirostris caribaus Coet, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and revised 



ed., 1886, 29, part ("AntJOles"). 

 Kallus longirostris oarilXBus Cokt, Au]£, v, 1888, 53 (Jamaican references) ; 



Birds West Indies, 1889, 254, part (Jamaica) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 



9, 91, part (Jamaica).— Sennett, Auk, v, 1888, 319, part.— Scott, Auk, ix, 



1892, 11 (Jamaica; nesting).— Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 122 (Jamaica; habits; 



descr. nest). — American Obnithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, 



No. 211.2, part ("West Indies") ; ed. 3, 1910, p. 103, part ("West Indies").— 



Bangs and Kennaed, Handb. Jamaica, 1920, 689 (Jamaica).— Wetmobe, 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xU, 1928, 122.— Danfoeth, Auk, xlv, 1928, 482 (near 



Kingston, Jamaica). 

 Rallus longirostris caribaeus Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 22, part 



(range).— Pbtebs, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 158.— Opeeholseb, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxiv, 1937, 334 (monogr. ; crit.) 

 Rlallus} llongirostrts'i caribaeus Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 87, part 



(Jamaica). 

 [Rallus longirostris} subsp. 7 Rallus caribaeus Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., xxiii, 1894, 13, part (Jamaica). 

 Rallus caribwus Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, 577 (Kingston, Jamaica). — Sclatee, Rev. 



Cat Birds Jamaica, 1910, 614 (19 in reprint). 

 [RalVus} caribwus Shaepe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 94, part ("Greater and Lesser 



Antilles"). 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS CUBANUS Chapman 



Cuban Clafpeb Rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Similar to Rallus longirostris insidarwm, but 

 with the margins of the feathers of the upperparts not pure gray but 

 olive-gray to brownish olive to olive-brown, not pronouncedly or very 

 strikingly distinct from the darker olive-brown to sepia to deep fuscous 

 centers. Two color phases — a light one with dark olive-brown 

 centers to dorsal feathers and a dark phase with these centers. Darker 

 generally above and below than Rallus longirostris caribaeus. 



Juv&nal (sexes alike). — Darker than adult of corresponding phase; 

 forehead, crown, occiput, hind neck, and entire upperparts of body 

 dull sepia in light phase and dull chaetura black in dark phase ; in the 

 light phase the interscapulars, scapulars, and feathers of upper back 

 with somewhat indistinct olive-gray edges ; in the dark phase the edges 

 narrower and duskier; sides of neck, lower throat, side of breast, and 

 flanks grayer than adult in light phase, blacker in dark phase (between 

 dark hair brown and chaetura drab) : the flanks only slightly and 

 irregularly barred with whitish, feathers of the sides, flanks, and 

 thighs frequently tipped with darker producing a veiled spotting or 

 incomplete, broken barring. 



Natal down. — ^Unrecorded. 



