136 KALLID.5;. 



F. ^ S. xxiii. p. 24 (1884 : Long Isl.) ; Clarke, Auk, i. p. 393 (1884 : 

 Conuecticut ; breeding) ; McCorvnck, t. c. p. 397 (U. Columbia) ; 



A. O. U. Check-l. B. p. 142 (1886) ; Brewster, Auk, iii. p. 139 

 (1886 : Texas) ; Goss, t. c. p. 408 (Kansas) ; Ridqiv. Man. N. Amer. 



B. p. 140 (1887) ; Cori/, B. West Ind. p. 256 (1889) ; Scott, Auk, 

 vii. p. 400 (1890 : Key West, Florida) ; Loomis, Auk, viii. p. -55 

 (1891); Scott, Auk, i'x. p. 11 (1892: Jamaica); id. t.c. p. 213 

 (^ Florida; rare -visitant). 



Ai'amides jamaicensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 61, no. 10444 (1871). 



Adult. General colour above brown, barred across and spotted 

 Avith Avbite, these white bars margined with corresponding bars of 

 black ; scapulars like the back ; lower back and rump rather more 

 blackish, barred with white like the back ; upper tail-coverts 

 blackish brown, with white bars ; tail black ; wing-coverts like the 

 back and barred or spotted with white ; bastard-wing dusk}' brown, 

 with white spots ; primarj'-coverts uniform black ; quills dusky 

 brown, with white spots on the outer web of the first primary and 

 white bars on both webs of the secondaries, rather irregular and 

 zigzag in shape ; the inner secondaries like the back, and similarly 

 barred with white ; crown of head slaty black, the hinder neck dull 

 rufous brown, overspreading the upper mantle ; lores blackish ; 

 sides of face and under surface of body slaty grey ; abdomen, sides 

 of body, flanks, and under tail-coverts black, with whitish bars, the 

 latter with broad rufescent margins ; thighs ashy externally, whitish 

 internally : under wing-coverts whitish, with dusky bases ; axil- 

 laries blackish, barred with white : " bill black ; feet bright 

 yellowish green; iris red" {J. J. Audubon). Total length 4'S 

 inches, culmen O-G, wing 2'65, tail 1-2, tarsus 0*8, middle toe and 

 claw 1, 



Young birds have the abdomen Mhite as well as the throat, are 

 less profusely barred witli wliite, have the hiud neck ruddy brown 

 instead of inclining to chestnut, and have the crown of the head for 

 the most part brown. 



Hub. Temperate North America to the AVest Indies and Central 

 America. 



a. Ad. sk. California {He7ishaic Cull.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/). Jus-, sk. Puefias, Guatemala {O. Salviri). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



c. Sternum. Jamaiea. Gusse Coll. 



2. Creciscus salinazi. 



Ortygometra cLilensis, B}). C R. xliii. p. •'J99 (18.56 ; descr. nulla). 

 Eallus salinazi, Fhilippi, Arch.f. Aat. 18-57, p. 262. 

 Gallinula salinazi, P/iilippi, Cat. p. 38 (1869, teste Coues). 

 Porzana iamaicensis (ncc Gm.), Set. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 333 (Chili), 



]i. 3J3 (Lima) ; id. c^- Scdv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 455 (pt.) ; iid. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 140 (1873, pt); Tacz. Orn. Peron, iii. p. 321 (1886). 



Adult. Similar to C. jamaicensis, but larger and paler in colour ; 

 \ he back and wing-coverts, and sides of body much more profusely 

 banded with white ; the hinder head and nape rufescent brown like 



