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Adiilt male.— Wmg 142.5-159 (149.0); tail 57-67 (61.8); exposed 

 culmen 58-66 (62.7) ; tarsus 52.5-55.5 (54.9) ; middle toe without claw 

 45-51.5 (48.2inm.).«* 



Adult female.— Wmg 128-139.5 (132.6) ; tail 49-65 (58.5) ; exposed 

 culmen 57-61 (59) ; tarsus 48-54 (52) ; middle toe without claw 



43.5-45.5 (44.8 mm.).^" . 



^a«^e.— Kesident and common in the coastal mangrove swamps ot 

 Cuba (Trinidad; Mariel; Preston; Manati; Guantanamo ; Wharf Los 

 Canos Estate ; Casilda ; near Nipe Bay) . 



Type locality. — Casilda, coast of southern Cuba. 



Rallus longirostris (not of Boddaert) d'Okbignt, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, 

 Ois., 1839, 260, pi. 31, fig. 5 (Spanish ed., 1839, 179).— Solateb and Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 444 (Cuba).— Gundlach, Om. (Jubana, 

 1895, 241. 



Rallus crepitans (not of Gmelin) Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 427 (Cuba).— 

 Bebwee, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba). — GimDLAcH, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1875, 356 (Cuba; habits) ; Contr. Orn. Cubana, 1876, 189. 



R[allus'[ crepitans Gundlach, Anal. Hist. Nat., ii, 1874, 165 (Cuba). 



[Rallus'\ crepitans Gttndlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba) ; Eepert. Fisico- 

 Nat. Cuba, 1, 1865-66, 361 (Cuba). 



Rallus longirostris corihwus (not of Ridgway) Coet, Auk, v, 1888, 53, part 

 (Cuban references) ; Birds West Indies, 1889, 254, part (Cuban references). 



Rallus longirostris caritaeus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 158 part. 



Rlallws} I longirostris'] cariMeus Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 87, part (Cjuba). 



Rallus longirostris cuhanus Chapman, BuU. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, iv, 1892, 288 

 (Casilda, s. coast of Cuba; coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.). — Cooke, U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 22 (Cuba).— Babboub, Mem. Nutt. Orn. aub, vi, 1923, 

 53 (distr.).— Danfoeth, Wils. Bull., xl, 1928, 179 (near Santiago de Cuba, 

 Cuba). — Obeeholsee, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus. Ixxxiv, 1937, 331 (monogr. ; crit). 



Rallus cuianus Shaepe, Cat Birds Brit. Mus., xsiii, 1894, 329. 



[Rallus] cuhanus Shabpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 93. 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS LEUCOFHAEUS Todd 



Isle of Pines Clappee Rah, 



Adult (sexes alike) , pale phase. — Similar to Ralhis longirostris cu- 

 hanus and Rallus longirostris waynei on the upper parts but much 

 paler below ; the throat, breast, and abdomen being dull white washed 

 with pale cinnamon-buff on the upper breast and with a mixture of 

 the same and pale gray on the sides of the throat; paler and whiter 

 than Rallus longirostris coryi; flanks grayer and slightly paler than 

 in cuhanvs. 



Adult female, darh phase (no males seen) .— rDiffers from the pale 

 phase only on the underparts; entire lower throat, sides of neck, the 

 breast and the upper abdomen heavily washed with light grayish olive 

 suffused with very pale avellaneous to pale pinkish buff. In this 



'Eight specimens. 

 ' Four specimens. 



