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and Nova Scotia south to northern Lower California, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, 

 southern Illinois, northern Missouri, southern Ohio, Pennsylvania, and 

 Maryland. Winters from California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida through 

 the West Indies and Central America to Venezuela and Peru. Occasional in 

 Labrador and Newfoundland; accidental in Bermuda, Greenland, England, 

 Wales, and Scotland, 



Genus COTURNICOPS Gray. 



Coiurnicops Gray, Catal. Genera and Subgenera Birds, 1855, 120. Type, 

 by monotypy, Fulica noveboracensis Gmelin. 



Coturnicops noveboracensis (Gmelin). Yellow Rail. [215.] 



Fulica noveboracensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 701. Based on 

 the Yellow-breasted Gallinule Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 493. (in 

 Noveboraco = New York.) 



Range. — Breeds in North Dakota and east-central California and occurs in 

 the breeding season in Wisconsin, Minnesota, northern Illinois, Ohio, Maine, 

 Massachusetts, southern Mackenzie, northern Manitoba, central Quebec 

 (Ungava), and Nova Scotia. Winters in the Gulf States north to North Caro- 

 lina, and in California. Casual in Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, and 

 Arizona, and in Bermuda. 



Genus CRECISCUS Cabanis. 



Credscus Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., VI, No. 24, Nov., 1856 [1857], 428. 

 Type, by monotypy, Rallus jamaicensis Gmelin. 



Creciscus jamaicensis stoddardi Coale. Black Rail. [216.] 



Cresciscus [sic] jamaicensis stoddardi Coale, Auk, XL, No. 1, Jan. 10, 

 1923, 89. (Hyde Lake, Chicago, Illinois.) 



Range. — Breeds from Massachusetts, Iowa, and Kansas south to New 

 Jersey, Virginia, and Florida. Winters probably mainly south of the United 

 States to Guatemala, and casually in southern Georgia, Florida, and southern 

 Louisiana. Casual in Nova Scotia and Bermuda. 



Creciscus jamaicensis coturniculus (Ridgway). Farallon Rail. [216.1.] 



Porzana Jamaicensis var. coturniculus "Baird," Ridgway, Amer. Nat., 

 VIII, No. 2, Feb., 1874, 111. (Farallone Islands, coast of California.) 



Range. — Coast marshes of California and northwestern Lower California, 

 sparingly in the interior; mainly recorded in autumn and winter but breeds 

 regularly on the marshes of San Diego Bay. Casual in Washington and 

 Oregon. 



[Another race, C. j. jamaicensis (Gmelin), occurs in Jamaica.] 



