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resident).— Barboue, Mem. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1923, 56 (Cuba; breeding; 



habits).— Beebe, New York Zool. Soc. Bull., xxs, 1927, 139; Beneath 



Tropic Seas, 1928, 219 (Etang Saumatre; Etang Miragoane, Hispaniola).— 



Peters, Auk, xliv, 1927, 534 (Anguilla, West Indies). 

 Oallinula chloropus cerceris Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, v, 1915, 



98 (Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool. ) .— Hartert, Nov. 



Zool., xxii, 1917, 270 (crit.).— Bond, Auk, xlix, 1932, 494 (crit. ; spec; 



St. Lucia). — Betters, Check-list Birds of World, 11, 1934, 205. 

 Q[allinula] c[hloropus] cerceris Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 93 in text (West 



Indies). 

 Gallinula chloropus {cerceris?) Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., Ixvlii, 



1929, 312 (Bonao, Hispaniola). 

 Gallinulu gaJeata cerceris Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 170 (type 



spec, in Mus. Comp. Zool.; crit.). 

 Gallinula chloropus portoricensis Danforth, Auk, xlii, 1925, 560 (orig. descr. ; 



Cartagena, Anegado, and Guanica Lagoons. Cabo Rojo Lighthouse, Argua- 



dilla, and Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) ; Journ. Dept. Agr. Puerto Rico, x, 



1926, 59-62, fig. 29 (Cartagena Lagoon, Puerto Rico; habits); Auk. xlvi, 

 1929, 362 (Hispaniola, common) ; Journ. Dept. Agr. Puerto Rico, 1930, 115 

 (Virgin Gorda, Virgin Islands) ; xv, 1931, 51 (various localities, Puerto 

 Rico). — Wetmore, New York Acad. Sci., Sci. Surv. Porto Rico, etc., ix, pt. 3, 



1927, 343 (genl. ; Puerto Rico) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxi, art. 2, 1932, 8, 16 

 (lie k Vache; Montet near Port-au-Prince; Petit Trou de Nippes, Haiti). — 

 Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ixxx, 1928 (1929), 495 (Port-au- 

 Paix, Trou Caiman, Haiti; nesting). — Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat, Ixviii, 



1929, 311 (Guerra, Hispaniola). — Beatty, Journ. Dept. Agr. Puerto Rico, xiv, 



1930, 139 (St. Croix; Virgin Islands; breeding); xv, 1931, 22 (Guanica 

 Lagoon, Puerto Rico). — Wetmore and Swales. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 155, 



1931, 136 (habits; distr. ; etc.; Hispaniola). — Danforth, Auk, 11, 1934; 

 358 (Antigua; common; meas.) ; Journ. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, xix, 1935, 

 447 (Cayo Norte; St. Thomas; Jost van Dyke; Tortola ; Beef Island; 

 St. Croix; specimen; meas.), 467 (Vieques Culebra ; Cayo Norte; St. 

 Thomas; Jost van Dyke; Tortola; Beef Island; Virgin Gorda; St. Croix), 

 477 (Barbuda) ; xxi, 1937, 543 (common Punta Arena, Playa Grande, and 

 Puerto Negro, Vieques Island) ; xxiii, 1939, 23 (Guadeloupe and Marie 

 Galante; spec); xxiii, 1939, 54 (Fox's Bay Pond, Montserrat). 



Genus PORPHYRULA Blyth 



Porphyrula Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. Asiat. Soc, 1849 (1852), 283, 286. (Type, 



by monotypy, Porphyria chloronotus Blyth^P. alleni Thompson.) 

 Porphyriola (emendation) Sundevaix, Av. Meth. Tent., 1S72, 131. 

 lonornis Reichenbach, Av. Syst., 1852, xxi. (Type, by monotypy, Fulica mar- 



tinicensis Jacquin=F. niartinica Linnaeus.) 

 Jonornis (emendation) Hb3nb and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1S90, 



318. 

 Glaucestes Reichenbach, Av. Syst., 1852, xxi. (Tjpe, by monotypy, Fulk:a 



flavirostris Gmelin=i^. parva Boddaert.) 

 Hydrioma "Hartl[aub]" Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, Sept. 1856, 599. 



(Type, by monotypy, Gallinula porphyrio "Temm[inck]" nee Latham=Por- 



phyrio alleni Thompson.) 

 Hydremia (emendation) Hartlaxib, Syst. Orn. Westafrica's, 1857, 243. 



