?PORZANA JAMAICENSIS— GALLINDLA GALE ATA. G18 



Lint of specimens. 



1019, nest and eggs (6); near Salt Lake City, May 22, 18G9. Nest in tiie coarse 

 grass and sedges of a pond, near Warm Spring Lake. 



1450, <J ml.; Tailey's Park, Wahsatcb Mountains, July 2fi, ISCO. 9— MJ. 15111 

 yellow, the up[)er mandible chielly greenish olive; iris, brown ; tarsi and toes, olive, 

 deepening into yellow on the scutellaj. 



'i POKZAXA JAMAICENSIS. 



Lilllc Black Kail. 



RaUvs jamaicemis, Gjielin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, 718. 



Porzana jamaicensis, Cassin, in Baird'.s Birds N. Am., 1858, 749.— Baird, Cat. 



N. Am. Birds, 1859, 550.— CouES, Key, 1872, 274; Check List, 1873, No. 470; 



Birds N.W., 1874,640. 



On several occasions, and at widely-distant localities, we met with a 

 small Rail of a black color, which must have been this species, unless it 

 should prove to be one at present undescribed. It was first seen on the 

 .'ith of September, 1868, in Ruby Valley. We happened to be riding' 

 horseback through a wet meadow, when the bird sprang up before us, but 

 suddenly dropped into the grass at the edge of a dense willow thicket. "\Vo 

 dismounted and attempted to Hush it, but without success, for it had evi- 

 dently escajjed into the densest portion of the thicket where it could not 

 be found. This bird appeared to be of about the size of Porzana Carolina, 

 though it may have been smaller, and was of a uniform blackish color, with 

 white along the hinder edge of the wing, showing conspicuously as it flew. 

 The same species was again met with in Parley's Park, in June, July, and 

 August, where several were killed, but all lost in the tall gra.ss and sedges 

 among which they fell. We are well aware that the above dascription does 

 not coirespond witli Porzana jamaicensis, but it could have been no other 

 species at present known. 



GaLLINULA gale AT a 

 Anieriraii Galiiniile. 



Crex galcaUi, Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1S2.'?, 80, No. 826. 



GalUnula galcatu, BONAP., Am. Orn., IV, 1832, 128. — Cassin, in Baird's Birds N. 

 Am., 1858, 7.52.— Baikd, Cat. N. Am. Bird.s, 1859, No. 500.- CorES, Key, 

 1872, 275; Check List, 1873, No. 472; Birds N.W.. 1874, 540. 



The "Rc'd-bilU'd Mud-hon'' w.is a very iibiiudaiit species in the tide 



