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Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 365; Check-list, ed. 3, 1910, 104, part (Ja- 

 maica).— Wetmoee, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 326, 1916, 36 (Puerto Rico).— 

 ScLATEB, Rev. List Birds Jamaica, 1910, 20. 



[Oreciscus'i jamaicensis Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba) ; Rep. 

 Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 186&-66, 362.— Shabpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 104, part. 



Greciscug [typog. error] Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 401 (Puerto Rico). 



Porzana jamaicensis Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1847, 40, part (Jamaica). — 

 ScLATEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, 81 (Jamaica). — Albeecht, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1862, 206 (Jamaica). — ^Maech, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 xvi, 1863, 69 (Jamaica). — Sohlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, v, No. 30, livr. 7, 1865, 

 36, part. — Sclateb and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 455, part 

 (monogr).— AitEEiCAN Oenithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, and ed. 2, 

 1895, No. 216, part. — Coet, Auk, v, 1888, 55 (Cuba; Jamaica; West Indian 

 references; descr.) ; Birds West Indies, 1889, 256; Cat. West Indian Birds, 

 1892, 91. 



[Porzana'i jamaicensis Sclatee and Saivin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 140, part 

 (Jamaica). — Coet, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1880, 30 

 (Cuba; Jamaica). 



[Porzana jamaicensisi a. jamaicensis Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 539, part 

 (synonymy). 



[Porzana jamaicensis'] a jamadcensis Baied, Beewee, and Ridgwat, Water 

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



Oreciscus jamaicensis jamaicensis Wbtmoee, New York Acad. Sci., Sci. Surv. 

 Porto Rico, etc., ix, pt. 3, 1927, 339 ( Puerto Rico, rare migrant) .— Rothsohiu), 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xlviii, 1928, 124 (spec). 



Laterallus jamaicensis Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 96 (winters in Jamaica, 

 Cuba, and Puerto Rico). 



Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis Petees, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 

 189. 



L[aterallus'i jamaicensis jamaicensis Conovee. Auk, 11, 1934, 365 in text. 



Llaterallus] j[amaicensis] jamaicensis Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 96 in text 

 (winters in Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico). 



LATERALLUS SPILONOTUS (Gonld) 



Darwin's Rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Entire head (back to the hind neck) and 

 entire lower parts neutral gray to deep neutral gray, usually slightly 

 darker on to the top of the head — deep neutral gray to dark neutral 

 gray — and becoming fuscous-black on the flanks, thighs, and under 

 tail coverts, which areas are also faintly and sparsely crossed by very 

 narrow whitish bars; interscapulars, scapulars, and upper back be- 

 tween argus brown and chestnut-brown; lower back, rump, upper 

 tail coverts, and rectrices dark clove brown ; upper wing coverts dark 

 clove brown broadly edged with argus brown and varyingly but 

 sparingly spotted with very fine white specks or, in some cases, com- 

 pleted unmarked; lower back also usually with some white specks, 

 but not always; (never present on the back alone — if spots occur on 

 the back they also occur on the wing coverts) ; remiges clove brown ; 

 iris reddish ; bill, tarsi, and toes dark brownish. 



