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of the body buffy brown darkening to olive-brown on the long scapu- 

 lars, their edges pale olive-gray; flanks Saccardo's umber barred 

 with white; lower throat, sides of neck, and breast pale ochraceous- 

 bufE with a faint light cinnamon wash, only the sides of neck and 

 middle of throat lightly tinged with grayish; and the dark phase with 

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

 upperparts sepia, the latter feathers edged with smoke gray washed 

 with pale olive brownish ; sides of neck, entire lower throat, and upper 

 breast darker than in light phase — washed with drab ; otherwise simi- 

 lar ; iris reddish hazel ; culmen and tip of lower mandible brown, the 

 base reddish; tarsi and toes liver brown, redder on the forepart of the 

 tibiae. 



Jv/venal. — None seen. 



Natal down. — Coal black; bUl with the mandible and distal half of 

 maxilla and an elongated patch over each nostril scarlet, the rest livid 

 pink. 



Adidt male.— Whig 138.5-150 (145.5) ; tail 56.5-63.5 (61.2) ; exposed 

 culmen 62-68 (63.9) ; tarsus 50-56.5 (54.2) ; middle toe without claw 

 47-49.5 (47.4mm.).''' 



Adult female.— Wing 136.5-139.5 (137.6) ; tail 56-60 (57.7) ; exposed 

 culmen 55-60 (58.2) ; tarsus 43.5-50 (47.4) ; middle toe without claw 

 41.5-43.5 (42.5 mm.)." 



Range. — Kesident in mangrove swamps of Puerto Eico (San Juan; 

 Boqueron; Parguera; Tallaboa; Mayaguez; Mameyes; La Playita 

 near Salinas ; Puerto Keal ; Aguadilla) ; Culebra Island ; Vieques 

 Island; Tortola; St. Croix; and St. Thomas. 



Type locality. — ^Mameyes, Puerto Eico. 



Rallus longirastris (not of Boddaert) Newtow (A. and E.), Ibis, 1859, 260 (St 



Croix; habits, fresh colors of soft parts). — Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1860, 3T8 (St. Thomas; crit.)— Wetmobe, Joum. Agr. Univ. 



Puerto Klco, xxi, 1937, 8 (St. Croix; kitchen middens). 

 Rallus crepitans (not of Gmelln) Gundlach, Journ. fur Om., xxvi, 1878, 162, 



189 (Puerto Eico) ; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 388 (Puerto 



Rico).— Stahi,., Fauna de Puerto Eico, 1883, 63, 152 (Puerto Rico; 



specimen). 

 (?) [Balhis longiroatris] c. var. caribwus Eidgway, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, v, 1880, 



140, part. 

 [Rallus longirostris] d. caribwus, Baibd, Beewee, and Eidgwat, Water Birds 



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

 [Rallus longirostris] c. caribwus Bajsd, Bbeweb, and Eidgwat, Water Birds 



North Amer., 1, 1884, 360, part (St. Croix). 

 [Rallus] longirostris caribwus Coet, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. 



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



"Eight specimens from Puerto Eico, Culebra Island, and St. Thomas. 

 " Five specimens from Puerto Rico and St. Thomas. 



