First records of the Spotted Rail (Pardirallus Maculatus) on the Island of Hispaniola

Abstract

On 17 April 1978, a bird watcher from San Francisco de Macorís brought a live rail to me for identification. He had purchased the individual from some boys who had captured it in a patch of grass in the center of a freshly plowed field (never before cultivated) at Madre Vieja, near the town of Nagua, province of María Trinidad Sánchez, in the Dominican Republic...