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of head and entire underparts plumbeous except chin and upper 

 throat, whiah are white. 

 Range. — Confined to the Zapata Swamp, Cuba. (Monotypic.) 



CTANOLIMNAS CERVEBAI Barbour and Peters 

 Zapata Rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Forehead, anterior part of crown, circum- 

 ocular area, lores, cheeks, auriculars, lower sides of neck, lower throat, 

 breast, upper abdomen, sides, and thighs, slate-gray; the crown 

 becoming olive-brown posteriorly, which color extends over the occi- 

 put, hindneck, scapulars, interscapulars, and upper wing coverts; 

 the hindneck and interscapulars a trifle more olive and less brownish 

 than the hind crown and occiput; remiges and rectrices fuscous 

 black ; back, rump, and upper tail coverts sepia to bister with a faint 

 olive tinge; lower abdomen and thighs dusky slate with a faint 

 fuscous tinge and the feathers very narrowly tipped with white; 

 flanks olive sepia narrowly tipped with white; shorter under tail 

 coverts avellaneous, the longer ones white; under wing coverts dull 

 fuscous-black narrowly tipped with white ; iris red ; bill red basally ; 

 greenish medially and yellowish green terminally ; tarsi and toes red. 



JvAienal female. — Like adult, but the colors generally slightly 

 duller. 



Natal down. — Brownish black. 



Adult rnale (type). — Wing 109.6; tail 43.3; exposed culmen 47.4; 

 tarsus 46.1 mm. ; middle toe without claw 41.5 mm.°^ 



Adult female.— Whig 95.8-103.1 (99.5) ; tail 36.6-42.9 (37.1) ; ex- 

 posed culmen 36-42 (38.2) ; tarsus 38.8-44 (41.1) ; middle toe without 

 claw 37.2-39.6 (38.1 mm.).»* 



Range. — Known only from the type locality. 



Type locatlity.— Santo Tomas, Peninsula de Zapata, Cuba. 



Cyanolimnas cerverai Babboue and Petees, Proc. New England Zool. Club, ix, 

 1927, 95 (orig. descr. ) .— Baebodb, Auk, xlv, 1928, 31 in text, pi. 4 (col. fig.; 

 gen. chars.).— Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 168 (type specimen 

 in Mus. Comp. Zool.).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 174.— 

 Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 90. 



Genus PARDIRALLUS Bonaparte 



Pardiralliis Bonapaetb, Compt. Rend., xliii, Sept, 1856, 599. (Type, by mono- 

 typy, liallus variegatus Gmelin=iJ. maculatus Boddaert.) 



Linmopardalus Cabanis, Joum. fiir Orn., 1856 (publ. 1857), 428. (Type, by 

 monotypy, Rallus variegatus Gmelln=i2. maculatus Boddaert.) 



Limnopardalis (emendation) Gbat, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 59.— Shaepe Hand-list 

 i, 1899, 95. 



" One specimen ; measurements by Peters. 

 "Three specimens; measurements by Peters. 



