iSSS.] Cory on the Birds of the IVcst Indies. q^ 



Porzana minuta March, Pr. Acad Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S64, p. 69. 



Porzana flaviventer Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, 1, p. 31 (186^). — A. & E. 



Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 114 (iSSi). 

 Porzana Jiaviventris ScL. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1S6S, p. 455; ib. Nom. Avium 



Neotr. p. 140 (1S73).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 30 (18S5). 

 Crybastus fnitmtus Gkw, Hand!. Bds. Ill, p. 61 (1871). 



Sp. Char. — Top of head and a line tlirough the eye, from the bill, dark 

 brown, darkest on the crown, and shading into light brown on the 

 back of the neck; middle back dark brown and black, streaked with 

 white; rump and upper tail-coverts chestnut brown, sometimes 

 touched with white; tail-feathers black, edged with brown, and 

 dotted with white ; wing-coverts light cinnamon-brown ; scapularies 

 marked with black and white; quills pale brown ; outer web of first 

 primaries dull white ; underparts white; throat white, tinged with 

 very pale yellowish brown ; flanks barred with white and black; 

 bill" dark. 



Length (skin), 5.75; wing, 2.75; tail, 1.15; tarsus, .85; bill, .60. 

 Habitat. Ctiba and Jamaica. 



Porzana jamaicensis (GxMel.). 



Rallus Jatnaicetisis Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 71S (1788). 



Ortygometra jamaicensis Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 375 (1847). — Brewer, Pr. 



Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 (i860) (Cuba). 

 Creciscus jamaicensis GuNDL. J. f. O. 1S56, p. 428 (Cuba) ; ib. 1S75. p. 360 



(Cuba) ; ib. 18S1, p. 401 (Cuba). 

 Porzatia jamaicensis ?>Cl^. F. Z. S. 1861, p. Si (Jamaica). — Albrecht, 



J. f. O. 1862, p. 206 (Jamaica). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. -Sci. Phila. 



1864, p. 69 (Jamaica). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 114 



(i88i).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 30 (1885). 



Recorded from Cuba and Jamaica. 



' Porzana Carolina (Linn.). 



Rallus caroliniis Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 363 (1766). — D'Orb. in La Sagra's 



Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 262 (1S40).— Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc Nat. 



Hist. X, p. 257 (1866) (Porto Rico).— Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. 



For. 1869, p. 5S7 (St. Bartholomew) ; ib. p. 601 (Porto Rico). 

 Ortygotnetra Carolina Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 371 (1847). — Brewer, Pi. 



Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII. p. 308 (i860) (Cuba). 

 Porzana Carolina Gundl. J. f. O. 1856, p. 428 (Cuba).— A. & E. Newton, 



Ibis, 1859, P- -60 (St. Croix). — ScL. P. Z. S. 1S61, p. 81 (Jamaica). 



—March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 69 (Jamaica).— Gundl. 



Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 361 (1S66).— Brace, Pr. Bost. Soc. 



Nat. Hist. XIX, p. 241 (1877) (Bahamas).— Gundl. J. f. O. 1875, p. 



358 (Cuba) ; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 390 (1878) (Porto 



