FAMILY RALLIDA:. RAILS. 



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* Group 3. Wing, 4.75 to 6.50 inches long. 



Feathers on back, dark olive, edged with gray ; cheeks and ear coverts, pale cinna 

 mon rufous, sometimes blackish in young birds; bill, over 1.25 inches long. Usually found 

 near fresh water. Rallus elegans. King Rail. 



See No. 165. 



Feathers on the back, black, edged with grayish olive ; cheeks and ear coverts, gray. 

 Prefers salt-water marshes. Ballus lonyirostris crepitans and varieties. Clapper Rail. 



See No. 166. 



* For directions for measurement, see page 9. 



