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Porsana flaviventer hendersoni Yf^MORE, New York Acad. Sci., Sci. Surv. 

 Porto Rico, etc., ix, pt. 3, 1927, 338 (Puerto Rico, resident; Laguna de 

 GuSnica, Bayam6n River, near Aguirre, Cartagena Lagoon). — Bond, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ixxx, 1928 (1929), 495 (Trou Caiman, Haiti).— 

 Wbtmore and Swales, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 155, 1931, 133 (habits, etc., 

 Hispaniola; rare; Fort Libert^; Trou Caiman). — Danforth, Joum. Dept. 

 Agri. Puerto Rico, xv, 1931, 50 (Cartagena Lagoon; Anegado Lagoon, 

 Puerto Rico). — Petees, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 184. — Beatty, 

 Journ. Agr. Puerto Rico, xv, 1931, 21 (Guanica Lagoon, Puerto Rico). 



P[orzana^ f[laviventer] hendersoni Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 92 in text 

 (Hispaniola; Puerto Rico). 



Hapalocrex flamventris Ridgway, Smiths. Misc. Coll., Ixxii, No. 4, 1920, 3. 



? Rallus Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, 236 (Dominican Republic). — 

 Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, xi, 1867, 97 (Dominican Republic). 



PORZANA FLAVIVENTER WOODI van Rossem 



SALVADORIAN YELLOW-BEaLLlEH) RAIL 



Adult male. — Similar to that of Porzand flaviventer hendersoni but 

 the crown paler; the pectoral region whiter; the median upperpart 

 browner, less blackish, the dorsal white markings narrower and less 

 extensive, and the black loral streak narrower (1 mm. wide) ; iris 

 dark red; bill blackish olive; tarsi and toes pale dull yellow. 



Other plumages unknown. 



Adult mMe.—Wing 6^65.5; tail 26.7-29; exposed culmen 16-16.5; 

 tarsus 23-24; middle toe without claw 28.5-29 mm.*^ 



Range. — Known only from the type locality, Lake Olomega, De- 

 partment of San Miguel, El Salvador. 



Porzana flaviventer woodi van Rossem, Condor, xxxvi, 1934, 243 (orig. descr. ; 

 Lake Olomega, El Salvador; crit.) ; Birds El Salvador, Field Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. Publ. Zool., xxiii, 1938, 160 (habits, Lake Olomega). 



Genus LATERALLUS G. R. Gray 



Laterallus "Pr. B." G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, 1855, 120. (Type, by 



monotypy, Ralhis melanophaius Vieillot, ex Bonaparte, 1854, nomen 



nudum.) 

 LateriraUus (emendation) Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 599. 

 Cryhastes Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856 (publ. 1857), 428. (New name for 



Laterallus, on grounds of purism.) 

 Donaeophilus Reichenow, in Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 



1890, 320. (New name for Laterallus, on grounds of purism.) 

 Rufirallus Bonaparte. Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 599. (Type, as designated by 



Scllater and Salvin, 1869, Rallus cayennensis Gmelin=iJ. cayanensis Bod- 



daert=/2. viridis Miiller.) 

 ErythroUmtms Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nora. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 



320. (Substitute for Rufirallus, on grounds of purism.) 



*'Two specimens, including the type. Van Rossem's measurements for the 

 type are slightly smaller than mine— wing 60.5; exposed culmen 15.8; tarsus 

 20.4 ; middle toe without claw 27 mm. 



