142 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B - C -, R 573, C 678.] 

 HAB. Northern parts of the Old World ; occasional in Greenland. 



214. Porzana Carolina (LINN.). 



Sora. 



Rallus carolinus LIXN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 153. 

 Porzana Carolina BAIRD, Lit. Rec. & Jour. Linn. Assoc. Penn. Coll. 

 Oct. 1845, 255- 



[B 555, C 648, R 574, C 679.] 



HAB. Temperate North America, but most common in the Eastern 

 Province, breeding chiefly northward. South to the West Indies and 

 Northern South America. 



SUEGENUS COTURNICOPS BONAPARTE. 



Coturnicops BOXAP. Compt. Rend. XLIII. 1856, 599. Type, Fulica 

 no-veboracensis GMEL. 



215. Porzana noveboracensis (GMEL.). 



Yellow Rail. 



FuUca noveboracensis GMEL. S. N^L " 1788, 701. 

 Porzana noveboracensis BAIRD, Lit. Rec. & Jour. Linn. Assoc. Penn. 

 Coll. Oct. 1845, 255. 



[B 557, C 469, R 575, C 680.] 



HAB. Eastern North America, from Nova Scotia and Hudson's 

 Bay west to Utah and Nevada. No extralimital record except Cuba 

 and the Bermudas. 



SUBMENUS CRECISCUS CAEANIS. 

 Creciscus CAR. J. f. O. 1856, 428. Type, Rallus jamaicensis LINN. 



21G. Porzana jamaicensis (GMEL.). 

 Black Rail. 



Rallus jamaicensis GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 718. 

 Porzana jamaicensis BAIRD, Lit. Rec. & Jour. Linn. Assoc. Penn. 

 Coll. Oct. 1845, 2 57- 



[B S5 6, C 47 o, R 57 6, C68i.] 



