ISG8.] ON THK AMKRK AN KALLID/E. 455 



Obs. A P. melanophtpa cajiite rufo, et crisso non nif'o, set! medio 

 nigio, albo utiinqiie inargiiiato, diversa. 



(4) Crybastus. 



12. porzana flaviventris. 



Petit rule cle Cayenne, Buff. PI. Enl. 847- 



Rallus flamv enter, Bodd. 



Ortygometra Jlaviventris, Grav, Gen. iii. p. 593 ; Hartl. Ind. Az. 

 p. 24. 



Ralhis minutus, Gm. S. N. p. 719. 



Ortygometra ininuta, Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 38S ; Gosse, B. 

 Jam. p. 372. 



Crex minuta, Sol. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 81. 



Rallus superciliaris, Vieill. N. D. xxviii. p. 565, et Enc. Meth. 

 p. 1070 (ex Azara, no. 377). 



LateriraUiis gossii, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 599 (1856). 



Crybastus gossii. Cab. J. f. Orn. 1856, p. 428; Gundlach, Rep. 

 F. N. i. p. 361. 



Erythra minuta, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 600 (1856). 



Supra flavicanti-hrunnea, capite et dorso medio obscurioribus, ni- 

 gricanti-brunneis : dorso et alis extus albo maculatis : superciliis 

 et corpore subtus ochracescenti-albidis, gula et ventre medio albi- 

 cantibus : hypochondriis et crisso albo nigroque transfasciatis : 

 rostra corneo, pedibus flavis : long, tota 5"0, alcB 2'7, caudcB 1'3, 

 rostri a rictu 0'7, tarsi 0'9, dig. med. cum ungue I'S. 

 Hab. Cayenne (^Buff.) ; Jamaica (Gosse et Osbiirn) ; Cuba 

 (Gundlach); Venezuela, Caraccas (Levraud, in Mus. Par.); South- 

 eastern Brazil {Burm.); Paraguay (Azara). 



Bonaparte has called the Jamaican form of this species Lateri- 

 rallus gossii, without giving us any explanation of how it differs 

 from the continental form which he calls Erythra minuta. We have 

 examined a specimen now in the British Museum, obtained by 

 Gosse, and compared it with a skin from Brazil, without being able 

 to detect any differences which would justify the separation of the 

 Jamaican bird. 



(5) Creciscus. 



a. plaga cervicali postica nulla. 

 a', pectore immaculato. 



a", dorso toto albo punctato 13. P. Jamaicens/s. 



h" . dorso fere immaculato 14. P. spilonota. 



h'. pectore albo nigroque variegato 15. P.notafa. 



h. plaga cerricali postica rufa 16. P.cinerea. 



13. PoRZANA JAMAICENSIS. 



Rallus jamaicensis, Gm. S. N. p. 718 ; Baird, Birds N. Am. p. 749. 



Ortygometra jamaicensis, Gosse, B. Jam. p. .'^75 ; Salv. Ibis, 

 1866, p. 198. 



Porzana jamaicensis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 81; P. Z, S. 1867, 

 p. 333 ct p. 343 ; Schlegel, Mus. des P.-B. Ralli, p. 67. 



