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74. (216.) PORZANA JAMAICENSIS (Gmel.). 



Black Rail. 

 Synonyms: Rallus jamaicensis. 



Little Black Rail, Little Black Crake. 



Entered as hypothetical by Dr. Wheaton in his 1882 Catalogue 

 on the authority of Dr. Langdon, whose record was also hypo- 

 thetical. The first published record must therefore stand as fol- 

 lows: 

 Dury, Charles, Journal Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 13, July, 1890, 97. 



This specimen, one of two seen, was captured near Car- 

 thage, May 17, 1890, at Ross Lake. I find no other authen- 

 tic record. 



75. (218.) IONORNIS MARTINICA (Linn.). 235. 



Purple Gallinule. 



Synonyms: Porphyrio martinica, Gallinula martinica, Fulica 



martinica. 

 Wheaton, Ohio Agri. Report, 1860, 369, 378, hypothetical. The 



first unquestioned record seems to be as follows: 

 Wheaton, Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, II, 1877, 83. Specimen captured 



by Dr. Howard E. Jones, at Circleville, May 10, 1877. 



The first specimen captured in the state of which we have 

 any record seems to be that reported to Dr. Wheaton. "Dr. 

 Hunt informs me of the capture of this species near the 

 mouth of the Big Miami river, on March 31, 1877." "Two 

 specimens * * * * have since been taken at Madisonville, 

 one by the writer in the latter part of April, and another 

 by Mr. William H. Whetsel, early in May. Mr. John W. 

 Shorten also reports one killed May 1, at Jones' Station 

 (about thirty miles from Cincinnati), by J. H. Kelly, Esq." 

 (Wheaton.) 



Prof. E. L. Moseley reports a specimen captured at San- 

 dusky bay, April 28, 1896 ; Dr. Carl Tuttle, one which had 

 flown against the telegraph wires and was killed, "along 

 the lake shore," September 2, 1894 (Auk XII, 191). 



No other records than these have come to my knowledge. 



