TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 77 



253731. Adult female. Trou Caiman, Haiti. April 4, 1917. Collected 

 by Paul Bartsch. Original number 101. 

 Porzana phaeopyga Stejneger 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 10: 394, November 3, 1887. 

 =Porzana fusca phaeopyga Stejneger. See Peters, Checklist of birds 



of the world 2: 186, 1934. 

 110976. Adult male. "Yayeyama Island"=either Ishigaki Island or 

 Iriomote Island (probably the former, fide Kuroda, Avifauna of the 

 Riu Kiu Islands, p. 198, 1925), southern Liu Kiu (Ryukyu) Islands, 

 East China Sea. February 3, 1887. Collected by J. Nishi. Original 

 number 18. Received from the Tokyo Educational Museum. 

 Porzana vitiensis Hartlaub 



Journ. fiir Orn. 2: 169 (not earlier than March), 1854. 

 Zapornia umbrina Cassin 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 8:254 (not earlier than October 

 28), 1856. 

 =Porzana tabuensis vitiensis Hartlaub. See Peters, Checklist of birds 



oftheworld2: 187,1934. 

 15720. Adult (sex not indicated). Ovalau Island (lat. 17°40' S., long. 

 178°52' E.), Fiji Islands, Oceania. 1840. Original number 622. U.S. 

 Exploring Expedition ( 1838-1842 ) . 

 Both Porzana vitiensis Hartlaub and Zapornia umbrina Cassin are new 

 names for "Zapornia spilonota, Gould" of Peale 1848, not Zapornia 

 spilonota Gould 1841. 



Although Cassin referred to "specimens," his MS. list indicates that he 

 had but one, and Peale himself said that "a single specimen was obtained at 

 Ovolau." 



Genus LATERALLUS G. R. Gray 



Porzana Jamaicensis, var. colurniculus "Baird" Ridgway 

 Amer. Naturalist 8: 111, February 1874. 

 =Laterallus jamaicensis coturniculus (Ridgway). See Friedmann, Birds 



of North and Middle America 9: 157, 158, 1941. 

 12862. Immature (sex not indicated). Farallon Islands, San Francisco 

 County, California. Entered into the museum register on October 13, 

 1859. Received from T. C. (not G.) Martin, of Lawrence, Massa- 

 chusetts. 

 This type has been discussed by Brewster (Auk 24: 206-207, 1907), and 

 by Grinnell (Univ- California Publ. Zool. 38: 271, 1932) . 

 Creciscus murivagans Riley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 29: 104, June 6, 1916. 

 =Laterallus jamaicensis murivagans (Riley). See Hellmayr and Con- 

 over, Catalogue of birds of the Americas 1(1): 370, 1942. 



