270 CRECISCUS JAMAICENSIS, 
Creciscus jamaicensis. 
Creciscus jamaicensis (Gm.); Sharpe, t.c. p. 135. 
A specimen is in the collection from Bogota. 
Limnobaenus marginalis. 
Porzana marginalis, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 241. 
Crex suahalensis, Tristr. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 98. 
The type of Canon Tristrams bird would appear to be 
a young one, as the adult female in the Leyden Museum 
has a grey head and neck, and the lower throat, fore 
neck and sides of body are also ashy grey slightly mottled 
with whitish edgings to the feathers; throat and centre 
of breast pure white; lower flanks, vent, and under tail 
coverts cinnamon coloured. Wing 4.05: tarsus 1.3. 
The young bird in the Leyden Museum is browner above, 
and brown on the head, the sides of the face light ru- 
fous, throat and abdomen whitish, the lower throat, 
chest, and sides of body very pale rufous with a few 
white streaks on the flanks, the under tail-coverts and 
lower flanks very pale tawny. 
Porzana Schomburgki, Schl. Cat. Ralli, p. 37. 
The specimens attributed to this species by Schlegel are 
really Neocrea erythrops (Sel.), as surmised by Sclater and 
Salvin (P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 457). 
Gallinula Franki, Schl. Notes Leyden Mus. I, 
p. 163 (1879). 
I have examined the type of this species in the Muse- 
um, and I am not quite convinced that Count Salvadori 
is right in uniting it to Amaurornis moluccana. Its colour 
is chocolate brown above and below, with the breast and 
abdomen dark ashy, and the throat dark ashy grey. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
