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North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 556.— Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1847, 

 40, part (United States; Mexico).— Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 749.— Schleqel, Mus. Pays-Bas, v. No. 30, livr. 7, 1865, 36, 

 part. — SCLATEE and Saltin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 455, part 

 (monogr.). — Tttrnbuxl, Birds Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1869, 

 42 (PhUa. ed., 33).— Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 11.— Coues, Check List, 

 1874, No. 470, part ; ed. 2, 1882, No. 681 ; Birds Northwest, 1874, 539, part.— 

 Nexson, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 43 (Calumet Marshes, ne. Illinois, 

 breeding; descr. nest and eggs). — Pubdie, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 22 

 (Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 1869; Saybrook, Conn., breeding). — Bheweh, Proc. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, xix, 1878, 307 (Plymouth, Mass. ) .— Rathbtjn (F. R.), 

 Rev. List Birds Central New York, 1879, 35 (Penn Tan, spring 1875 ; between 

 Havana and Watkins, spring 1872). — Goss, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 

 60 (near Beloit, Mitchell County, Kans., June) ; Auk, iii, 1886, 408 (Neosho 

 Falls, Kans,, Mar. 18).— Lawkenob, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 117 

 (Jamaica, Long Island, spring). — Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 

 202 (Cat. Birds North Amer., No. 576) ; Norn. North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 

 576; Orn. Illinois, ii, pt. i, 1895, 96 — Neheunq, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 

 1882, 224 (se. Texas, April) .—Reid, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 25, 1884, 248 (Ber- 

 muda, 1847, 1848, and 1851; 3 specimens). — Baird, Bbewee, and Ridgwat, 

 Water Birds North Amer., 1, 1884, 377.— Claek (J. N.), Auk. i, 1884, 393 

 (Saybrook, Conn., breeding; descr. nest and eggs). — Bbewsteb, Auk, ill, 

 1886, 139, in text (Cooke County, Tex.). — American Oenithomgists' Union, 

 Check-list, 1886, and ed. 2, 1895, No. 216, part— Scott, Ank, vii, 1890, 400 

 (Key West, Fla., Mar. 11). — Stone, Birds Eastern Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey, 1894, 67 (records).— Cooke, Colorado Agr. Exp. Stat. Bull. 44, 1898, 

 158 (near Denver, Colo.). — Buti.eb, Rep. State Geol. Indiana for 1897 

 (1898), 679 (breeding at English Lake, Starke County, and near Green- 

 castle, Ind.). — ^AiiEN, Auk, xvii, 1900, 1 [-8], pi. 1 (biography). — ^Ktjmuen 

 and HoiiiSTEE, Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc, Bull. 3, 1903, 39 (Wisconsin). — 

 Wayne, Warbler, ser. 2, i, 1905, 33 [-35], pi. [1] (breeding habits in South 

 Carolina) ; Auk, xxii, 1905, 397 (near Charleston, S. C, breeding). — Plemihg, 

 Auk, xxiii, 1906, 453 (Toronto, Ontario, 1 doubtful record). — Woodetoff, 

 Chicago Acad. Sci. Bull. 6, 1907, 59 (Chicago area, rare summer resident). — 

 WiDMANN, Birds Missouri, 1907, 60 (2 records). — Anderson, Proc. Davenport 

 Acad. Sci., xi, 1907, 209 (Iowa, rare summer resident). 



[Porzana] jamaicensis Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 274. — Sclatee and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 140, part (Guatemala). 



Plorzana] jamaicensis Bidgway, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, x, 1874, 387 

 (lUlnois) ; Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 140, part.— Nelson, BuU. Essex 

 Inst., viii, 1876, 134 (ne. Illinois, breeding; descr. nest and eggs ) .— Cotjes 

 Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 674, part. 



[Porgana jamaicensis'i •/.. jamaicensis Cotjes, Birds Northwest, 1874, 539, part 

 (synonymy). 



[Porzana jamaicensis'i a jamaicensis Baied, Beeweb, and Ridgway, Water 

 Birds North Amer, i, 1884, 367, 377 ; part. 



Crex pygmea (not of Bechstein) Blackweli,, Edinburgh Journ. Sci., n. s., 

 vi, 1832, 77, 78 (North America). 



Creciscus jamaicensis jamaicensis Oberholsbb, Auk, xli, 1924, 592 (synon- 

 ymy).— Howell, Birds Alabama, 1924, 90, ed. 2, 1928, 90 (Alabama).— 

 Bailey, Birds Florida, 1925, 43, pi. 23 (fig.; distr.; Florida). 



Orescisous jamaicensis stoddardi Coale, Auk, xl, 1923, 89 (Hyde Lake, South 

 Chicago, 111). 



