BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 159 



0[recMC«s] jlanmicensisl ooturniculus Tavkbneb, Birds Canada, 1934, 174 

 in text (may possibly occur on coast of s. British Columbia). 



Porzana jamaicensis (not Rallus jamaicensis Gmelin) Mekriam, 6th Ann. Kep. 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1873, 715 (Parley's Park, Utah).— Benmee, Proc. 

 Boston. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1877, 143 (Malheur Lake, e. Oregon, breeding).— 

 Geinneu, (J.), Pasadena Acad. Sci. Publ. 2, 1898, 15 (Los Angeles County, 

 Calif.; breeding ?).— Brooks (A.), Auk, xxiii, 1906, 141 (Tacoma, Wash., 

 rare migrant). 



(?) Porzana jamaicetisis 1 (not Rallus jamaicensis Gmelin ?) Beewsteb, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 36 (near Tucson, Ariz., Apr.). 



Laterallus jamaicensis eoturniculus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, li, 

 1934, 189. 



L[aterallus'\ jlamaicensis] eoturniculus Conover, Auk, li, 1934, 365 in text. 



LATERALLUS JAMAICENSIS JAMAICENSIS (Gmelin) 



Jamaican Black Rail 



Aduli (sexes alike). — Similar to that of Laterallus jamaicensis 

 stoddardi but with a longer middle toe (without claw 23 mm. in 

 length), slightly longer and heavier bill; and somewhat duller in 

 coloration, the white markings on the upper parts smaller and fewer. 



Other plumages not seen. 



Adult male. — ^Wing 71; tail 29; exposed culmen 16; tarsus 25.5; 

 middle toe without claw 23.5 mm.°^ 



Adult female. — ^Wing 67.5; tail — ; exposed culmen 16.5; tarsus 23.5; 

 middle toe without claw 23.5 mm.^' 



Range. — Eesident (and rare) in marshes in Jamaica, Puerto Eico, 

 and Cuba (1 Cuban record the subspecific identification of which 

 is open to question). 



Type locality. — Jamaica. 



\Rallus\ jamaicensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i. pt. 2, 1789, 718 (Jamaica ; based on 

 Rallus jamaicensis Brisson, Om., vi., 1760, App., p. 140; Rale BidirBidi Buffon, 

 Hist. Nat. Ois., viii, 166; Least Water-hen Edwards, Gleanings, pi. 278; 

 Brown, Jamaica, 479; Latham, Synopsis Birds, iii, pt. i, 1785, 239) — 

 Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 761. 



Rallus jamaicensis Tdeton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 434. — Sonnini, Nouv. Diet. Hist. 

 Nat., xxvlii, 1819, 550, part. 



Ortygometra jamaicensis Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool, xii, pt. i, 1824, 221. — 

 Bonaparte, Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 53. — Gossb, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 

 375.— Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1860, 309 (Cuba). 



Corethrura jamaicensis Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 96. 



Creoiscus jamaicensis Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 428 (Caba). — Gundlach, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1875, 360 (Cuba) ; Contr. Orn. Cubana, 1876, 192; Om. 

 Cubana, 1895, 245.— Stahl, Fauna Puerto Rico, 1883, 63, 153 (Puerto Rico; 

 specimen); Ornis, iii, 1887, 448, 452 (Puerto Rico). — Shakpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 135, part (Jamaica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 323, part. — ^American Ornithologists' Union 



' One specimen of each sex. 



