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Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 365; Check-list, ed. 3, 1910, 104, part (Ja- 

 maica).— Wetmobe, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 326, 1916, 36 (Puerto Rico).— 

 ScLATEK, Rev. List Birds Jamaica, 1910, 20. 



[Creciscus] jamaicensis Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba) ; Rep. 

 Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-66, 362.— Sharps, Hand-list, i, 1899, 104, part. 



Oreciscns [typog. error] Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 401 (Puerto Rico). 



Porzana jamaicensis Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1847, 40, part (Jamaica).— 

 ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, 81 (Jamaica). — Albrecht, Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1862, 206 (Jamaica). — March, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 xvi, 1863, 69 (Jamaica). — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, v, No. 30, livr. 7, 1865, 

 36, part. — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 455, part 

 (monogr). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, and ed. 2, 

 1895, No. 216, part.— Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 55 (Cuba; Jamaica; West Indian 

 references ; descr. ) ; Birds West Indies, 1889, 256 ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 

 1892, 91. 



[Peruana] jamaicensis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 140, part 

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

 (Cuba; Jamaica). 



[Porzana jamaicensis] a. jamaicensis Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 539, part 

 (synonymy). 



[Po7-zana jamaicensis'] a jamvaicensis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water 

 Birds North Amer., i, 1884, 367, 377, part. 



Creciscus jamaicensis jamaicensis Wetmore, New York Acad. Sci., Sci. Surv. 

 Porto Rico, etc., ix, pt. 3, 1927, 339 (Puerto Rico, rare migrant) . — Rothschild, 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xlviii, 1928, 124 (spec). 



LateralUis jamaicensis Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 96 (winters in Jamaica, 

 Cuba, and Puerto Rico). 



LateralUis jamaicensis jamaicensis Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 

 189. 



L[aterallus] jamaicensis jamaicensis Conovee. Auk, li, 1934, 365 in text. 



Liaterallus] j[amaicensis] jamaicensis Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 96 in text 

 (winters in Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico). 



LATERALLUS SPILONOTUS (Gould) 



Darwin's Rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Entire head (back to the hind neck) and 

 entire lower parts neutral gray to deep neutral gray, usually slightly 

 darker on to the top of the head — deep neutral gray to dark neutral 

 gray — and becoming fuscous-black on the flanks, thighs, and under 

 tail coverts, which areas are also faintly and sparsely crossed by very 

 narrow whitish bars; interscapulars, scapulars, and upper back be- 

 tween argus brown and chestnut-brown; lower back, rump, upper 

 tail coverts, and rectrices dark clove brown ; upper wing coverts dark 

 clove brown broadly edged with argus brown and varyingly but 

 sparingly spotted with very fine white specks or, in some cases, com- 

 pleted unmarked; lower back also usually with some white specks, 

 but not always; (never present on the back alone — if spots occur on 

 the back they also occur on the wing coverts) ; remiges clove brown; 

 iris reddish ; bill, tarsi, and toes dark brownish. 



