TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 79 



299086. Adult male. "A marsh covering thousands of acres overgrown 

 with cat-tail flags in a great fresh water lagoon near the Tamesi River 

 at Aha Mira," State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. March 8, 1926. Col- 

 lected by Edward A. Goldman. Origineil number 16260. Received 

 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



Genus COTURNICOPS G. R. Gray 



Porzana goldmaiii Nelson 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 17: 151, October 6, 1904. 

 =Coturnicops noveboracensis goldmani (Nelson). See Friedmann, 



Birds of North and Middle America 9: 179, 180, 1941. 

 193712. Adult? male. Lerma (about 10 miles east of Toluca), State of 

 Mexico, Mexico. July 11, 1904. Collected by Edward A. Goldman. 

 Original number 10994. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service. 



Genus SAROTHRURA Heine 



Sarothrura loringi Mearns 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 65 (13) : 8, November 26, 1915. 



==Sarothrura elegans loringi Mearns. See Peters, Checklist of birds of 

 the world 2: 196, 1934. 



214680. Aduk female. West side of Mount Kenya (at elev. 8,500 feet), 

 Kenya Colony. October 13, 1909. Collected by John A. Loring. 

 Original number 438 (original label) or 439 (museum label). Smith- 

 sonian African Expedition. 



Genus AMAURORNIS Reichenbach 



Aniaurornis phoeniciira cleptea Oberholser 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (7) : 2, October 26, 1912. 

 =Amaurornis phoenicurus javanica (Horsfield). See Ripley, Bull. Mus. 



Comp.Zool.94:327,1944. 

 180786, Adult female. Mojeia River, Nias Island, Barussan Islands, 



eastern Indian Ocean off Sumatra. March 11, 1905. Collected by 



WilUam L. Abbott. 



Genus GALLINULA Brisson 



Gallinula sandviccnsis Streets 



Ibis (4) 1 : 25, text-fig., January 1877. 

 =Gallinula chloropus sandvicensis Streets. See Peters, Checklist of birds 



of the world 2:204, 1934. 

 67361. Adult (sex not indicated). Honolulu, Oahu Island, Hawaiian 



Islands, Oceania. February 1874. Collected by Thomas H. Streets. 



