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with a few small, and often incomplete, transverse white bars; rec- 

 trices fuscous to fuscous-black edged with snuff brown ; a white super- 

 ciliary line from the nasal antia to the dorsoposterior end of the 

 cheeks, a black line through the eye just beneath it, and a wliitish 

 malar stripe just below that running from the mandibular antia to 

 the lower margain of the eye and spreading out ventrally into the 

 white chin and upper throat; cheeks, auriculars, and sides of neck 

 buffy hair brown; lower throat and breast washed with pale warm 

 buff; abdomen, sides, flanks, and thighs white, the sides and flanks, 

 and to a lesser extent, the thighs, barred with chaetura black ; under 

 tail coverts white much washed with clay color and barred with 

 blackish like the flanks; under wing coverts white obscurely and 

 sparingly marked with dusky hair brown; "bill olive, legs and feet 

 yellowish" (Scott). 



Other plumages unknown. 



Adult male.—W'iwg 63.5-71 (67.6) ; tail 26.5-33.5 (30.6) ; exposed 

 culmen 16-18 (17.2) ; tarsus 20-24 (22.7) ; middle toe without claw 

 25.5-31.5 (28.8 mm.).** 



Adult female.— Wmg 65-74 (68.5) ; tail 27.5-34 (31) ; exposed 

 culmen 15.5-17.5 (16.3) ; tarsus 20-24.5 (22.5) ; middle toe without 

 claw 26.5-30 (28.1 mm.). *^ 



Range. — Resident in fresh-water swamps and edges of ponds in 

 Cuba (Lake Ariguanabo; Cienaga; Habana; Minas; Cristobal; Ca- 

 banaz; San Francisco de Morales); and Jamaica (Westmoreland; 

 Negril; Spanish Town.) 



Type locality. — Jamaica. 



Ortygometra minuta (not Rallus minutus Gmelin) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 

 372 ; Illustr. Birds Jamaica, 1849, pi. 104. 



Rallus minutus Lembeye, Aves Isla Cuba, 1850, 109. 



Crex minuta Sclatee and Salvin, Proc. ZooL Soc. London, 1861, 81 (Ja- 

 maica). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., x, 1862, 206 (Jamaica). 



Porsana minuta March, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1864, 69 (Jamaica). 



Olrtygometra] flavirentris (not Rallus flaw'venter Boddaert) Gray, Gen. Birds, 

 iii, 1846, .593, part. 



[Aramides] flaviventcr Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 61, No. 10443, part (Jamaica). 



Porzana flaviventris Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 455, 

 part (Jamaica; monogr.) — Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 54 (Cuba; Jamaica; synon- 

 ymy; descr.) ; Birds West Indies, 1889, 255; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 

 9, 91. — Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 11 ( Passage Fort, Jamaica ; fresh colors of 

 nude parts).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 110, part (Ja- 

 maica). — GuNDLACH, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 244. — Sclater, Rev. List Birds 

 Jamaica, 1910, 19.— Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 31, part 

 (range; Jamaica; Cuba).— Wetmoee, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 326, 1916, 36 

 (Puerto Rico, resident). 



Sixteen specimens from Cuba (9) and Jamaica (7). 

 * Eleven specimens from Cuba (2) and Jamaica (9). 



