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[Porzaua] flaviventris Sclatee aud Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 140, part 



(Jamaica). — Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 30 



(Cuba; Jamaica). — Sharpe, Hand-list, 1, 1899, 102, part (Cuba, Jamaica). 

 Plorzana] flaviventer Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 114. 

 Eapalocrex flaviventris Ridgway, Smiths. Misc. Coll., Ixxii, No. 4, 1920, 3, 



part. 

 Lateriralhts gossii Bonapabte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 599. 

 Cri/hastes gossii Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., iv, 1856, 428 (Cuba). 

 [Crybasies] gossei Gxjndlach, Journ. fiir Orn., ix, 1861, 342 (Cuba) ; Rep, 



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

 Cryhastes gossei Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., xxiii, 1875, 358 (Cuba; habitf^^) ; 



xxvi, 1878, 162, 189 (Puerto Rico) ; Contr. Orn. Cubana, 1876, 191. 

 Laterirallus gossei Stahx, Ornis, iii, 1887, 452 (Puerto Rico). 

 Porzana -flaviventer gossi Bangs and EZennaed, List Birds Jamaica, 1920, 6 



(common resident; crit.). 

 Porzana flaviventer gossii Baebotte, Mem. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1923, 55 (Lake 



Ariguanabo and the Cienega, Cuba; habits; crit.). — Peters, Check-list 



Birds of World, ii, 1934, 184 (Cuba and Jamaica). 

 Plorzana'] fllaviventer] gossei Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 91, 92 in text 



(Cuba aud Jamaica). 



PORZANA FLAVIVENTER HENDERSONI (Bartsch) 



Henderson's Yellow-bellied Rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Similar to Porzana fiaviventer gossii but 

 slightly smaller. 



Other plumages unknown. 



Adult male. — Wing 62.5; tail 30; exposed culmen 16; tarsus 21; 

 middle toe without claw 29 mm.*^ 



Adult female. — Wing 61-63.5; tail 29; exposed culmen 15-16 mm; 

 tarsus 22.5 ; middle toe without claw 27 mm.*'' 



Range. — Resident in marshes with heavy aquatic growth in Puerto 

 Rico (Laguna de Guanica; Bayamon River) and Hispaniola (Trou 

 Caiman ; Fort Liberte) . 



Type locality. — Trou Caiman, Haiti. 



Crybastus gossei Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., xxvi, 1878, 162, 189 (Arecibo 



River, Puerto Rico; specimen) ; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 391 



(Arecibo River; not rare). 

 Laterirallus gossei Stahl, Faun. Puerto Rico, 1883, 63 (Puerto Rico, rare) ; 



Ornis, 1887, 452 (rare). 

 Porzana flaviventris Wetmore, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 326, 1916, 36 (Laguna de 



Guanica ; Bayamon River) ; Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xlvi, 1922, 307 



bones from caves near Morovis, Puerto Rico). — ^Danforth, Journ. Dept. 



Agr. Puerto Rico, x, 1926, 55-56 (Cartagena Lagoon, Puerto Rico). 

 Porzana flaviventris hendersoni Baetsch, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxx, 



1917, 131 (Trou Caiman, Haiti; spec, U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Smiths. Misc. Coll., 



Ixviii, No. 12, 1918, fig. 42 (habitat). 



*'One male and two females from Haiti, including the type, examined. An 

 unsexed bird from Puerto Rico has the following measurements: Wing 62; 

 tail 30.5; exposed culmen 16; tarsus 21; middle toe without claw 29 mm. 



