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Crex ohloropus Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. V5g., 1830, 3; Journ. fiir Om., xi, 



1863, 59. 

 OalUnula fusca Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist Nat, xli, 1817, 404, part 

 Gallinula cKloropus centralis MnxEE (W. deW.) and Griscom, Amer. Mus. 



Nov., No. 25, 1921, 3 (12 miles south of Metapa, central Nicaragua; coa 



Amer. Mus. Nat Hist). 



GALLIXULA CHLOROPUS CERCERIS Bangs 



Anthiean Gat.t.tntjle 



Adult (sexes alike). — Similar to that of Gallinula chlorojma 

 cachinnans but with the brown on the upperparts not extending 

 markedly on to the upper wing coverts ; and with the tarsus slightly 

 longer. 



Young birds appear to be indistinguishable from North American 

 mainland ones. 



Adult male.—W'mg 166-186 (174); tail 62.3-75.6 (70.8); culmen 

 from frontal shield 46.5-49 (48.2) ; tarsus 62-61 (58.0) ; middle toe 

 without claw 66-75 (73.1 mm.).^= 



Adult female.— Wmg 154^183 (166.1) ; tail 63.6-73.5 (67.2) ; cul- 

 men from the frontal shield 13.5-16 (15.2) ; tarsus 49-59 (52.9) ; 

 middle toe without claw 59-73.5 (66.9 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Resident in the West Indies from the Bahamas (New 

 Providence, Watling Island, Great Inagua) ; and the Greater An- 

 tilles — Cuba (Laguna del Sitio) ; Jamaica ; Hispaniola (£tang Sau- 

 matre; £tang Miragoane; lie a Vache; Et Batey, Yasica River; 

 Bonao; near Port-au-Prince; Petit Trou de Nippes; Port-de-Paix, 

 Trou Caiman); Puerto Rico (Aguadilla; Mayaguez; Cabo Eojo 

 Lighthouse; Anegada, Guanica, and Cartagena Lagoons), Vieques; 

 Culebra ; and Virgin Gorda ; and Grand Cayman ; through the Lesser 

 Antilles — St. Vincent ; St. Thomas ; St. Croix ; St. Lucia ; Guadeloupe, 

 Anguilla, Montserrat, Barbuda, Barbados, Marie Galante, Carriacou, 

 Dominica, Grenada, Mustique, Jost van Dyke, Tortola, and Antigua ; 

 to Tobago and to Swan Island. 



Type locality. — Island of St. Lucia. 



Fulica cMoropus West, Beytr. Beschr. St. Croix, 1794, 243.— D'Obbigny, in 

 La Sagra, Hist. Nat. Cuba, Aves, fol. ed., 1839, 184; 8vo ed., 268. 



Gallinula ohloropus Rittek, Naturh. Reise westind. Insel Haytl, 1836, 1.57 

 (Haiti).— Wetmoee, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., liv, 1918, 520 (bones, St 

 Croix).— Danpobth, Wils. Bull., xi, 1928, 179 (Laguna del Sitio, Cuba; 

 breeding). — Fishee and Wetmoee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxix, art, 

 10, 1931, 5 (Grand Cayman Island; Caribbean Sea). 



*■ Fifteen specimens (data for culmen and middle toe based on 8 specimens) 

 from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Barbuda, Antigua, and Montserrat. 



*■ Eighteen specimens (data for culmen based on 8 specimens only; that 

 of middle toe on 9 specimens) from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, 

 Grenada, Barbuda, Antigua, Tobago, and Montserrat 



