BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 89 



Rallus ellegans] elegang Relet, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., nvi. Mar. 22, 1913, 

 84, 85, in text.— Hicks, Wlls. Bull., xlv, 1933, !») (Ashtabula County, 

 Ohio; very rare and local; nest and 7 eggs June 80).— Euor and Bago, 

 Auk, U, 1934, 246 (seen at Northampton, Mass., Sept 13, 1933).— Hicks, 

 Auk, liii, 1936, 228 (nesting near South Zanesville, and at Cambridge, 

 Ohio) .—Poole, Auk, Iv, 1938, 516 (weight and wing surface). 



BALLUS ELEGANS BAMSDENI RUey 



Cuban King Rail 



Adults (sexes alike) . — Similar to the light phase of Rallug elegans 

 elegans but smaller, more extensively white on the abdomen and lower 

 breast, and with the upper part of the cheeks and auriculars slightly 

 more grayish — ^gull gray to pale neutral gray. 



JvwencH. — Similar to that of the nominate race. 



Natal down. — ^Unknown. 



Admit wwzfe.— Wing 149-152.8 (151.2) ; tail 53-65 (56.4) ; exposed 

 cuhnen 5S-58 (56.7) ; tarsus 52-56 (54.6) ; middle toe without claw 

 45-50 (47.8 mm.).s» 



Adxdt fejrwle.—SVmg 134r-144.2 (141.4) ; taU 52-58.5 (57) ; exposed 

 cuhnen 46-54 (51.4) ; tarsus 49-55 (51.9) ; middle toe without claw 

 41.5-44 (42.8 mm.). =» 



Range. — ^Resident, but scarce, in Cuba (Guantanamo, Habana, 

 Aguada de Pasajeros, Lake Ariguanaba, Bucuranao, Laguna del 

 Siteo, Zapata Swamp, not in the larger lakes of the island) ; and the 

 Isle of Pines (Siguanea, Los Indios, Pasadita, and Xueva Gerona). 



Type locality. — Guantanamo, Cuba. 



Rallus elegans (not of Audubon) Cabanis, Jonm. fur. Om., iv, 1836, 427 

 (Cuba). — GiTN-DLACH, Joum. fiir Om., x, 1S62, 90 (Cuba; crit.) ; Contr. 

 Om. Cubana, 1876, 188; Om. Cubana, 1895, 239. — ^Thienemann, Joum. fiir 

 Om., V, 1857, 156 (Cuba; descr. ^gs). — Bbeweb, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat 

 Hist., Tli, 1860, 308. — Cobt, Auk, v, 1888, 82 (Cuba; references) ; Ix, 1892, 

 272 (Cuba) ; Birds West Indies, 1889, 253 (Cuba; excL syn. part) ; Cat 

 West Indian Birds, 1892, 91 (Cuba). — Shabpe, Cat Birds Brit Mus., xxiii, 

 1894, 8, part (Cnba).— Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 87 (Cuba and Isle 

 of Pines). 



{1) Rallus elegans Bangs and Zappet, Amer. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 192 (Isle of 

 Pines, Cuba). 



[RaUus'i elegant Gtjndlach, Joum. fiir Om., ix, 1861, 342 (Cuba) ; Rep. Fislco- 

 Nat Cnba, i, 1865-66, 360.— Sclateb and Saivin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 139, 

 part (Cuba). — Coet, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 18S6, 2C 

 (Cuba).— Shaepe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 93, part (Cuba). 



R[allus'\ elegans Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 18S4, 672, part (Cuba). 



[Rallus elegans] a. elegans CorES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 538 (in synonymy). 



" Seven specimens from Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 

 "" Nine si)ecimens from Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



