ri Cory oh the Birds of the West Indies. [January 



asliv tinged with reddish across the breast, becoming Avhite on the 

 throat and abdomen, banded faintly on sides and flanks with white 

 and pale ashy." (Maynard, orig. descr., 1. c.) 



Length, 11.50; wing. 6; tail, 2.10; tarsus, 1.75; bill, 2.15. 

 Habitat. Aiulrus Island. Bahamas. 



Genus Porzana Vieill. 

 Porzana Vieillot, Analyse, p. 61, 1816. 



Porzana concolor (Gosse). 



Rallus coin-olor GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 369 (iS47).--Albrecht, J. f. O. 1S62, 



p. 206. — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 69. 

 Caret hrura cayamensis Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, P- 64- — ScL. & Salv. Ibis, 



1859, P- 230. 

 Corethrura ffualemalensis l^wvR. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 106. 

 Rallina castanea Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 17 (1865). 

 Porzana concolor ScL. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 452 ; ib. Nom. Avium 



Neotr. p. 140 (1873). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 114 



(1881).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 30 (1885). 

 Riijirallus concolor Gray, Handl. Bds. Ill, p. 61 (1871). 



Sp. Char, il/^/e ;— Head dark olive, showing a tinge of rufous on the 

 forehead; back olive, shading into rufous brown on the wing- 

 coverts; sides of the head pale reddish brown, brightest on the 

 cheeks; chin white, shading into clear reddish brown on the lower 

 throat and breast, rest of underparts reddish brown ; under surface 

 of wings dull slate color. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 9.25; wing, 5.25; tarsus, 1.75; bill, i.io. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



■ Porzana flaviventris (Bodd.). 



Rallus flaviventer "Bodd. PI. Enl. (1783)." 



Rallus minutus Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 719 (1788).— Lemb. Aves Cuba, 



p. 109(1850).— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 (1S60). 

 Ortygometra minuta Burm. Syst. Ueb. Ill, p. 388.— Gosse, Bds. Jam. 



p. 372 (1847). 

 Rallus superciliaris ViEiLL. Nouv. Diet. XXVIII, p. 565. 

 Ortygometra flaviventris (3vLK\, Gen. Bds. Ill, p. 593 (1844-49). — Hartl. 



Ind. Az. p. 24. 

 Later iallus gosseiVtV. Compt. Rend. XLIII, p. 599 (1856). 

 Erythra vtinuta Bp. Compt. Rend. XLIII, p. 600 (1S56). 

 Crybastus gossii Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 428.— Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. 



Cuba, I, p. 36: (1866) ; ib., J. f. O. 1875, p. 358. 

 Crex minuta ScL. P. Z. S. 1861, p. Si. 



