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Range.— Resident in fresh-water swamps in western Cuba (Prov- 

 inces of Habana, Matanzas, and Santa Clara), said to be abundant 

 in the Zapata Swamp, elsewhere scarce. This form, or possibly a dis- 

 tinct race, formerly inhabited Jamaica, where the species is now 

 extinct, and whence no specimens exist in any museum. 



Type locality. — Near Jaruco, Province of Habana, Cuba. 



Rallus variegatus (not of Vieillot) D'Obbiqnt, La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, 



Ois., 1839, 261 (Spanish ed., p. 180).— Brewee, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba). 

 lAmnopardalis variegatus Cabanis, Journ. fUr Orn., Iv, 1856, 428 (Cuba). — 



GuNDLACH, Journ fur Orn., xxiii, 1875, 357 (Cuba; habits); Contr. Orn. 



Cubana, 1876, 190. 

 [lAmnopardalis] variegatus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., ix, 1861, 342 (Cuba) ; 



Rep. Fisico-Nat Cuba, i, 1865-66, 361. 

 Rallus maculatus (not of Boddaert) Sclateb and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon- 

 don, 1868, 444, part (monogr.).— Coet, Auk, v, 1888, 52 (Cuba; descr., etc.) ; 



Birds West Indies, 1889, 253 (Cuba) ; Cat West Indian Birds, 1892, 9, 91, 



128 (Cuba). 

 IRallusI maculatus Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 139, part 



(Cuba).— COKT, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 29 (Cuba). 

 [Aramus] maculatus Gbat, Hand-list, ill, 1871, 59, No. 10416, part (Cuba). 

 lAmnopardalis maculatus Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit Mus., xxiii, 1894, 28, part 



(Cuba).— Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 242. — Cooke, U. S. Dept Agr. 



Bull. 128, 1914, 25, part (Cuba). 

 lAmnopardalis maculatus inoptatus Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, iv, 



1913, 90 (near Jaruco, Prov. Habana, Cuba; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.) ; BuU. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 168 (type spec, in Mus. Comp. Zool.) 

 Pardirallus maculatus inoptatus Petebs, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 170. 

 P[ardirallus] m[aculatus1 inoptatus Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 89 in text 



(Cuba). 



PARDIRALLUS MACULATUS INSOLITUS (Bangs and Peck) 

 HONDTJEANIAN SPOTTED RaH, 



Adult (unsexed)^ — Similar to Pardirallus maculatus inoptatus, 

 but with the brown parts of the plumage darker, seal brown instead 

 of mummy brown; wing 121, tail 42, exposed cuhnen 48, tarsus 40, 

 middle toe without claw 35.5 mm. 



Range. — Known only from the type locality. 



Type locality. — Ycacas Lagoon, British Honduras. 



Iminopardalns maculatus insoUtus Bangs and Peck, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 xxi, 1908, 43 (Ycacos Lagoon, British Honduras; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs) ; 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 169 (type specimen In Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



Pardirallus maculatus insoUtus Petees, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 169. 



' Unique type. 



