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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



flanks, striped, and wing edged with white ; crissum, whitish ; bill, 

 with frontal plate, red, sometimes edged with yellowish. 

 Length 13; wing 6.60; tail 3.10; tarsus 2. 



This species is not uncommon about the lakes near Gantier. 

 Several specimens were taken. 



Genus: IONORNIS. Reich. 



fONOKJV/S: REICHENBACH, SYST. A V., /. 21, 1S53. 



IONORNIS MARTINICA. {Linn.) 



Fulica martinica. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. p. 259 (1766). 



Gallinula martinica. Lath., Ind. Orn., II. p. 769 (1790). — Nutt., 

 Alan., II. p. 221 (1834). — Aud., Bds. Am., V. p. 128, pi. 303 

 (1842).— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Bds., No. 561 (1859). — Bryant, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., VII. p. 122 (1859). 



Porphyrio martinica. Temm., PI. Col., p. 405, 1820-39. — Burm., 

 Syst. Neb., III. p. 392. — Gosse, Bds. Jam., p. 377 (1847). — 

 Scl. and Salv., P. Z. S., 1S64, p. 372. — Coues, Check List, 

 No. 473 (1873). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 178 (1S80); Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, XI. p. 155 (1881). 



Ionornis martinica. Reich., Syst. A v., p. 21 (1S53). — Ridgw., Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., III. p. 202 ( 1 881). — Coues, Check List, 

 2d ed., No. 685 (1882).— Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., Hist. N. Am. 

 W. Bds., I. p. 384 (1884). 



Fulica mariin/censis. Jacq., Beitr., 17S4, p. 12, pl. 3. — Gmel., Syst. 

 Nat., I. p. 700 (1788). 



