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Porzana flaviventer hendersoni Wetmoee, New Tork Acad. Scl., Sci. Surv. 

 Porto Rico, etc., ix, pt. 3, 1927, 338 (Puerto Rico, resident; Laguna de 

 GuSnica, Bayam6n River, near Aguirre, Cartagena Lagoon). — Bond, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliiladelphia, Ixxx, 1928 (1929), 495 (Trou Caiman, Haiti).— 

 Wetmoee and Swales, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 155, 1931, 133 (habits, etc., 

 Hispaniola; rare; Fort Libert^; Trou Caiman).— Danfokth, Journ. Dept. 

 Agri. Puerto Rico, xv, 1931, 50 (Cartagena Lagoon; Anegado Lagoon, 

 Puerto Rico).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 184. — Beatty, 

 Journ. Agr. Puerto Rico, xv, 1931, 21 (GuAnica Lagoon, Puerto Rico). 



Plorzana] fUaviventer] hendersoni Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 92 in text 

 (Hispaniola; Puerto Rico). 



Hapalocrex flamventris Ridgwat, Smiths. Misc. Coll., Ixxii, No. 4, 1920, 3. 



? Rallus Sajxe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, 236 (Dominican Republic). — 

 Bbtant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, xi, 1867, 97 (Dominican Republic). 



PORZANA FLAVIVENTER WOODI van Rossem 



Salvadokian Xbllow-bellied Rail 



Adult male. — Similar to that of Porzana flaviventer hendersoni but 

 the crown paler; the pectoral region whiter; the median upperpart 

 browner, less blackish, the dorsal white markings narrower and less 

 extensive, and the black loral streak narrower (1 mm. wide) ; iris 

 dark red; bill blackish olive; tarsi and toes pale dull yellow. 



Other plumages unknown. 



Adult 7nale.—W\ng 62-65.5; tail 26.7-29; exposed culmen 16-16.5; 

 tarsus 23-24; middle toe without claw 28.5-29 mm.*^ 



Range. — Known only from the type locality, Lake Olomega, De- 

 partment of San Miguel, El Salvador. 



Porzana flaviventer woodi van Rossem, Condor, xxxvi, 1934, 243 (orig. descr. ; 

 Lake Olomega, El Salvador; crit.) ; Birds El Salvador, Field Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. Publ. Zool., xxiii, 1938, 160 (habits. Lake Olomega). 



Genus LATERALLUS G. R. Gray 



Laterallus "Pr. B." G. R. Geat, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, 1855, 120. (Type, by 



monotypy, Rallus melanophaius Vieillot, ex Bonaparte, 1854, nomen 



nudum. ) 

 Laterirallus (emendation) Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 599. 

 Cryiastes Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1856 (publ. 1857), 428. (New name for 



Laterallus, on grounds of purism.) 

 Donacophilus Reichenow, in Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 



1890, 320. (New name for Laterallus, on grounds of purism.) 

 Ruflrallus Bonapaete, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 599. (Type, as designated by 



Scl&ter and Salvin, 1869, Rallus cayennensis Gmelin=iJ. cayanensis Bod- 



daert=iJ. viridis Miiller.) 

 ErythroUmnas Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 



320. ( Substitute for Rufirallus, on grounds of purism. ) 



"Two specimens, including the type. Van Rossem's measurements for the 

 type are slightly smaller than mine— wing 60.5; exposed culmen 15.8; tarsus 

 20.4 ; middle toe without claw 27 mm. 



