BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 159 



Clrecisctis] jlamaicensis'] cotuniiculus Taverner, Birds Canada, 1934, 174 

 in text (may possibly occur on coast of s. British Columbia). 



Porsana jamaicensis (not Rallus jamaicensis Gmelin) Meebiam, 6th Ann. Rep. 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1873, 715 (Parley's Park, Utah).— Bendire, Proc. 

 Boston. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1877, 143 (Malheur Lake, e. Oregon, breeding). — 

 Grinnell (J.), Pasadena Acad. Sci. Publ. 2, 1898, 15 (Los Angeles County, 

 Calif.; breeding ?).— Brooks (A.), Auk, xxiii, 1906, 141 (Tacoma, Wash., 

 rare migrant). 



(?) Porzana jamaicensis ? (not Rallus jamak-ensls Gmelin ?) Brewster, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 36 (near Tucson, Ariz., Apr.). 



Laterallus jamaicensis coturniculits Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 

 1934, 189. 



Liateralltis] jlamaicensis'] cotuniiculus Conover, Auk, li, 1934, 365 in text. 



LATERALLUS JAMAICENSIS JAMAICENSIS (Gmelin) 



Jamaican Black Rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Similar to that of Lateralliis jamaicensis 

 stoddardi but with a longer middle toe (without claw 23 mm. in 

 length), slightly longer and heavier bill; and somewhat duller in 

 coloration, the white markings on the upper parts smaller and fewer. 



Other plumages not seen. 



Adult male. — Wing 71; tail 29; exposed culmen 16; tarsus 25.5; 

 middle toe without claw 23.5 mm.^^ 



Adult female. — ^Wing 67.5; tail — ; exposed culmen 16,5; tarsus 23.5; 

 middle toe without claw 23.5 mm,^^ 



Range. — Eesident (and rare) in marshes in Jamaica, Puerto Rico, 

 and Cuba (1 Cuban record the subspecific identification of which 

 is open to question). 



Type locality. — ^Jamaica. 



\_Rallus'\ jamaicensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat, i. pt. 2, 1789, 718 (Jamaica; based on 

 Rallus jamaicensis Brisson, Orn., vi., 1760, App., p. 140; Rale Bidi-Bidi Buffon, 

 Hist. Nat. Ois., viii, 166; Least Water-hen Edwards, Gleanings, pi. 278; 

 Brown, Jamaica, 479; Latham, Synopsis Birds, iii, pt. i, 1785, 239) — 

 Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 761. 



Rallus jamaicensis Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 434. — Sonnini, Nouv. Diet. Hist. 

 Nat, xxviii, 1819, 550, part 



Ortijffometra jamaicensis Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool, xii, pt. i, 1824, 221. — 

 Bonaparte, Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 53. — Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 

 375.— Brewee, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vii, 1860, 309 (Cuba). 



Corcthrura jamaicenMs Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 96. 



Creciscus jamaicensis Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 428 (Caba). — Gundlach, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1875, 360 (Cuba) ; Contr. Orn. Cubana, 1876, 192; Orn. 

 Cubana, 1895, 245.— Stahl, Fauna Puerto Rico, 1883, 63, 153 (Puerto Rico; 

 specimen) ; Ornis, iii, 1887, 448, 452 (Puerto Rico). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit Mus., xxiii, 1894, 135, part (Jamaica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 323, part. — American Ornithologists' Union 



One specimen of each sex. 



