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Genus CREX Bechstein. 



Crex Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl., II, 1803, 336. Type, by 

 monotypy, Crex pratensis Becustein = Rail us crex Linnaeus. 



• Crex crex (Linnaeus). Corn Crake. [217.] 



Rallus Crex Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 153. (in Europae 

 agris, carectis = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds in Europe and Asia, from Scandinavia, Russia, and Siberia 

 south to northern Italy, Macedonia, and central Asia. Winters in Africa, 

 Arabia, and northern India (rarely). Casual or accidental in Greenland, 

 Baffin Island, Newfoundland (?), Nova Scotia, Maine, Rhode Island, Con- 

 necticut, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland, and in Bermuda. 



Subfamily GALLINULINAE. Gallinules. 



Genus IONORNIS Reichenbach. 



lonornis Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Nat., 1852 [1853], xxi. Type, by 

 orig. desig., Fulica martinicensis Jacquin = FuKca martinica Linnaeus. 



lonornis martmica (Linnaeus). Purple Gallinule. [218.] 



Fulica martinica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 259. (in Martin- 

 icae inundatis = Martinique, West Indies.) 



Range. — -Breeds from Texas, Louisiana, southern Alabama, and South 

 Carolina south through Mexico and the West Indies to Ecuador, Paraguay, 

 and Argentina. Winters from Texas, Louisiana, and Florida southward. 

 Irregularly north in summer to Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Wisconsin, 

 Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maine, Ontario, Quebec, 

 Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick; accidental in Bermuda. 



Genus GALLINULA Brisson. 



Gallinula Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 50; VI, 2. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Gallinula Brisson = FttZica chhroptis Linnaeus. 



Gallinula chloropus cachinnans Bangs. Florida Gallinule. [219.] 



Gallinula chloropus cachinnans Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, V, 

 96, May 17, 1915. (Arbuckle Creek, DeSoto Co., Florida.) 



. Range, — Breeds from central California, Arizona, Nebraska, Minnesota, 

 southern Ontario, New York, and Vermont south to the West Indies, Mexico, 

 the Cape district of Lower California, and Panama; also in the GaMpagos 

 Islands and Bermuda. Winters from southern California, Arizona, Texas, and 



