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Casual in Bermuda (as a migrant) and Colorado (near Denver). 

 Doubtfully recorded from Maine (Scarboro) and Nova Scotia (Hali- 

 fax). 



Type locality. — Hyde Park, South Chicago, 111. 



Rallus jamaicensis (not of Gmelin, 1789) Sonnini, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 

 xxviii, 1819, 550, part.— Audubon, Orn. Biogr., iv, 1838, 359, pi. 349. 



Rlallns] jania/icensis K'elson, Bull. Essex Inst, viii, 1876, 153 (ne. Illinois, 

 breeding). 



Ortyyometra jamaicensis Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 214; Birds Amer., 8vo. ed., 

 V, 1842, 157, pi. 308.— JARDINE. Contr. Orn., 1848, 85 (Bermuda, Nov.) — 

 HuRDis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 11 (Bermuda, Sept. 5, 1848).— Bland, 

 Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 287 (Bermuda).—? Salvin, Ibis, 

 1866, 198 (Duenas, Guatemala). 



[Ortygom,etra'\ jamaicensis Martens, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 220 (Bermuda). 



Crecisctis jamaicensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 135, part 

 (Dueiias, Guatemala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 

 1903, 323, part (Massachusetts; Illinois; Florida; Dueiias, Guatemala). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 365 ; Check- 

 list, ed. 3, 1910, 104, part— Palmer (T.S.), Auk, xxvi, 1909, 190 (District 

 of Columbia, Sept. 1; Piscatawny, Prince Georges County, Md., Sept. 25). — 

 Cory, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Publ. 131, 1909, 385 (Illinois, Wisconsin).— 

 Wayne, Birds South Carolina, 1910, 39 (summer resident; breeding 

 habits; descr. nest and eggs; notes). — Eaton, Birds New York, i, 1910, 281, 

 pi. 26.— CoALE, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 276 (Oconta River, Green Bay, Wis., 

 June 9). — FoRBUSH, Game-birds, Wild-fowl, and Shore-birds, 1912, 215 

 (habits). — Sage, Bishop, and Bliss, Birds Connecticut, 1913, 50. — Bunker, 

 Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull. 7, 1913, 143 (Kansas, summer resident). — Baynard, 

 Auk, XXX, 1913, 243 (Alachua County, Fla., summer resident, breeding). — 

 Harlow, Auk, xxx, 1913, 269 (near Brigantine, N. J., breeding; descr. nest 

 and eggs) ; xxxv, 1918, 21 (breeding in east marshes of Ocean, Burlington, 

 and Atlantic Counties, N. J.).— Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 

 33, fig. 14 (geogr. range and migr. routes). — Griscom, Birds New York 

 City Region, 1923, 137, fig. 11 (status, New York City region ) .—Nice 

 (M. M. and L. B.), Birds Oklahoma, 1924, 29 (genl. ; Oklahoma). — 

 FoRBUSH, Birds Massachusetts and Other New England States, i, 1925, 361, 

 pi. 23 (fig.; descr.; habits; New England). — Taverner, Birds Western 

 Canada, 1926, 126 (descr.; distr. ; w. Canada). — Longstreet, Auk, xliii, 

 1926, 379 (Mosquito Inlet, Fla.).— Bailey, Wils. Bull., xxxix, 1927, 176 

 (distr.).— Pickens, Wils. Bull., xl, 1928, 188 (Chester, S. 0.).— Cooke 

 (M. T.), Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xlii, 1929, 27 (Washington, D. C.).— 

 Hicks, Wils. Bull., xli, 1929, 43 (Bumgardner's Pond, Franklin County, 

 and Alum Creek Swamp, Westerville, Ohio). — Longstreet, Auk, xlvii, 1930, 

 95 (Daytona Beach, Fla. ) .—Lewis, WiLs. Bull., xlii, 1930, 42 (nw. Okla- 

 homa). — Butler, Auk, xlviii, 1931, 439 (Mosquito Inlet, Fla.). — Griscom, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ixiv, 1932, 122 (Guatemala; possibly winter 

 visitant). — ^Ta^'ebner. Birds Canada, 1934, 174 (unsubstantiated records 

 from Prairie Provinces, s. Ontario and Quebec; possibly Manitoba). 

 iCreciscus'\ jamaicensis Sharpe, Hand-List, i, 1899, 104, part. 



Oreciscus (typog. error) jamaicensis Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 

 1875, 447 (Connecticut). 



Porsana jamaicensis Baird, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xlvi, 1844, n. p. (Carlisle, 

 Pa.) ; Lit. Rec. and Journ. Linn. Assoc. Pennsylvania Coll., 1845, 257; Cat. 



