BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 145 



Omilteme, Guerrero, May 29).— Snydee, Trans. Koy. Can. Inst., xxli, 1938, 

 186 (western Kainy River district, Ontario; breeds).— Obebholseb, Bird 

 Life Louisiana, 1938, 203 (fairly common winter resident, Aug. 1-May 24, 

 in southern Louisiana; migrant in central and northern Louisiana).— 

 BoBEix, Condor, xl, 1938, 181 (Brewster County, Tex., Oct.).— Webb, Condor, 

 xli, 1939, 36 (Deep Springs Valley, Inyo County, Calif .) .—Por^ND, Auk, Iv, 

 1938, 128 (Leetown, W. Va., several August records).— Bennett and 

 Hendwckson, Auk, Ivi, 1939, 36 (adapt, to environment).— Walkinshaw, 

 Auk, Ivi, 1939, 230 in text (eggs).— Lincoln, Auk, Ivi, 1939, 331 (breeding, 

 Langley Field, Va.). 



[Porzana] Carolina Gtjndlach, Rep. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-66, 361.— Coties, 

 Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 274.— Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 

 1873, 139.— Cost, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 30.— 

 Shaepb, Hand-list, 1, 1899, 101.— Bkabouene and Chubb, Birds South Amer- 

 ica, i, 1912, 24 (Colombia ; Ecuador ; Trinidad). 



Plorzana] Carolina Ridgway, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist, New Tork, x, 1874, 387 

 ( Illinois) ; Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 139.— Newton (A. and E.), Handb. 

 Jamaica, 1881, 114.— Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 673.— 

 Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xlviii, 1928, 122 (eggs). 



Porzana Carolina 1 Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877, 748 (Santa 

 Lucia, Peru). 



[Aramides] Carolina Geat, Hand-list, ill, 1871, 60, No. 10431. 



GresB Carolina Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 375 (Costa Rica).— Haeting, 

 Man. Brit. Birds, 1872, 152. 



[Oaleolimnas'i carolinus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 

 320. 



[Ralliis] porzana (not of Linnaeus) Gmelin, Syst. Nat, i, pt 2, 1789, 712, part. 



Rallus porzana Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 430, part 



[Oallinula^ porzana Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 772, part. 



Rallus virginianus (not of Linnaeus) Wilson, Amer. Orn., vi, 1812, 27, pi. 48, 

 fig. 1.— Stone, Auk. xlvii, 1930, 560 in text 



Rallus stolidus Vieiixot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xxviii, 1819, 567 (new name for 

 Rallus carolinus Linnaeus). 



Rallus oUvaceus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xxviii, 1819, 561 ("Sainte 

 Domingue" ; young sora rail) . 



PORZANA FLAVIVENTER GOSSn (Bonaparte) 



Jamaican Yellow-bellied Rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Forehead, crown, occiput, and nape chaetura 

 drab to chaetura black; scapulars, interscapulars, back, and rump 

 Saccardo's umber to snuff brown, the scapulars and interscapulars 

 with white shaft stripes bordered broadly with fuscous-black to black, 

 the feathers of the back and nxmp with relatively indistinct dusky 

 centers and, occasionally with short white terminal shaft streaks or 

 terminal median spots, the brown more rufescent on the rump, the 

 brown palest on the scapulars — clay color to deep cinnamon -buff ; 

 upper wing coverts like the scapulars but with the blackish and the 

 white areas much reduced, the white sometimes in the form of small 

 bars; remiges deep olive-brown; upper tail coverts largely blackish 



