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Va., Sept. 26 and Oct. ) .—Hicks, Auk, liil, 1936, 228 (nesting. South Zanes- 



ville and Cambridge, Ohio). 

 R[allu8] l[imicola] limicola Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 96 in text (rare 



in winter in Cuba; doubtful record for Isle of Pines). 

 Rallua virginianus paciflcus (not of Gmelin, 1789) Dickbt, Condor, xxx, 1928, 



322 in text (orig, descr. ; 5 miles west of Corona, Riverside County, Calif.). — 



Gbinneh, Dixon, and Linsdale, Uniy. California Publ. Zool., xxxv, 1930, 



214 (distr., Lassen Peak region, northern California). — Gmnnell, Univ. 



California Publ. Zool., xxxviii, 1932, 271 (type loc. ; crit.). 

 Rallus limicola paciflcus Andbsson, Condor, xxxvi, 1934, 82^ 

 Rallus limicola zetarius Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 160 (new 



name for paciflcus Dickey). — Stone, Auk, 11, 1934, 540 in text. 



Genus CYANOLIMNAS Barbour and Peters 



Cyanolimnas Baebotie and Peteies, Proc. New England Zool. Club, ix, 1927, 95. 

 (Type, by monotypy, Cyanolimnas cerverai Barbour and Peters.) 



Apparently flightless, medium-sized Ealli with very short rounded 

 wing (99-110 mm.), very short tail, and relatively short tarsi and 

 toes, and the bill somewhat distended basally and brightly colored 

 (red) there, resembling somewhat, in a superficial way, the gallinules. 



Bill moderate, slightly longer than head, swollen basally so that 

 its depth at base is about one-third the length of the exposed culmen 

 and the width at the gape equal to the basal height of the maxilla, 

 but there is no expansion into a frontal shield as in Gallmula, more 

 like a cere superficially; the base of the culmen definitely elevated 

 and broadened and flattened and situated anterior to the eye; the 

 culmen narrower and very slightly depressed as well as compressed 

 above the nostrils; thence gently decurved to the tip; gonys more 

 than two-thirds as long as mandibular rami, and entirely straight 

 to the tip; mandibular rami with a rather indistinct lateral groove 

 formed by the slight swelling of the basal part of the mandibular 

 tomium; nasal fossa well marked and extending for slightly more 

 than half the length of the maxilla; nostril narrowly ovate, almost 

 slitlike, and much nearer to the maxillary tomium than to the cul- 

 men; separated from the loral antia by a space a little less than its 

 length; anterior outline of loral feathering with a rounded apex 

 (antia) above center of nasal fossa, receding downward and back- 

 ward to the angle of the mouth and backward and upward to the 

 pointed base of the culmen ; malar antia posterior to the loral antia, 

 the mental antia on a line with the posterior end of the nostril. 

 Wing very short (the bird apparently flightless), concave beneath, 

 and very rounded, the longest primaries exceeding the distal second- 

 aries by less than one-tenth the length of the wing, and slightly 

 exceeded by the elongated proximal secondaries; third and fourth 

 primaries (from outside) the longest; the first the shortest, shorter 

 even than the shortest secondary. Tail a little less than half as 



