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except a small whitish patch next to the chin, all the breast, and the 

 upper abdomen dusky drab slightly tinged with cinnamon-buff, espe- 

 cially on the upper abdomen; flanks of dark phase dark blackish olive- 

 brown, barred with white; iris "clear brown"; bill dull brown, tip 

 paler, basal two-thirds of mandible and sides of maxilla below and 

 behind nostril dull yellowish; tarsi and toes dull brown (in dried 

 skin). 



Jvwenal. — None seen. 



Natal down. — Coal black. 



Adult nude.— Wmg 151-159.5 (155) ; tail 61.5-66.4 (63.3) ; exposed 

 culmen 63.8-68.5 (65.5) ; tarsus 57-61 (59) ; middle toe without claw 

 50-54 (51.9 mm.).«» 



Advlt female.— Wmg 134.5-144.5 (138.4) ; tail 54.4^60 (56.9) : ex- 

 posed cuhnen 53.6-63 (68.7) : tarsus 46.4^59.5 (52.8) ; middle toe with- 

 out claw 40.5-45 (43.2 mm.) .«» 



Range. — Resident in the coastal mangrove swamps of Haiti (Fort 

 Liberte; Caracol; Petit Trou de Nippes; Grande Cayemite; Etroites; 

 Gonave Island ; Picmy ; Bizoton ; Aquin ; Cap-Haitien) ; and the 

 Dominican Republic (Monte Cristi) ; everywhere local in occurrence. 



Type locality. — Etroites, Gonave Island, Haiti. 



Rallus longvrostris Babtsch, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxx, 1917, 132 

 (Haiti).— Beeke, New York Zool. Soc. Bull., xxx, 1927, 139 (Bizoton) ; Be- 

 neath Tropic Seas, 1928, 129. 



Rallus longirostris caribaeus Petebs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixi, 1917, 402 (Monto 

 Cristi, Dominican Republic,) ; Check-list Birds of World, 11, 1934, 158, part. 



RlaUus'i l[ongirostris'\ caribaeus Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 87, part 

 (Hispaniola, Gonave Island, lie a Vache). 



Rallus longirostris vafer Wetmobe, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xli, 1928, 121 

 (Etroites, Gonave Island, Haiti). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1928,495 

 (Port-au-Prince, Caracol, Jaquesy, Fort Libert^). — Danfoeth, Auk, xlvi, 1929, 

 362 (Monte Cristi, Les Salines, Gonave). — Wjtmobe and Swaies, U. S. Nat 

 Mus., Bull. 155, 1931, 130 (habits; distr; Hispaniola). — Wbttmore, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxi, art. 2, 1932, 5, 6, 15 (Petite Gonave Island: Grande 

 Cayemite Island; Petit Trou de Nippes, Haiti; meas.). — Whjtmqee and 

 Lincoln, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxii, art. 25, 1933, 10 ((lie a Vache).— 

 OBEsaoLSEB. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. Ixxxiv, 1937, 328 (monosr. : crit.). 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS LIMNETIS Oberholser 

 Ptjeeto Rican Clapper Rah, 



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

 slightly browner above and more pinkish cinnamon on the lower throat 

 and breast; flanks darker; differs from caribaeus in being less rufes- 

 cent, more grayish brown ; two phases — ^the pale one with the crown, 

 occiput, hind neck, and the centers of the feathers of the upperparta 



"Four specimens; aU measurements except middle toe, ex Wetmore. 

 °° Seven specimens ; all measurements except middle toe, ex Wetmore. 



