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Rallus limicola limicola Vieillot. Virginia Rail. [212.] 



Rallus limicola Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., XXVIII, 

 1819, 558. (Etats Unis = Pennsylvania.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern British Columbia, Saskatchewan, southern 

 Manitoba, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Bruns- 

 wick south to northern Lower California, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, 

 southern Illinois, southern Ohio, Kentucky, New Jersey, and eastern North 

 Carolina; also in Toluca Valley, Mexico. Winters from Utah and Colorado 

 (casually Montana) to southern Lower California, Guatemala, and the lower 

 Mississippi Valley states, and from North Carolina (casually Massachusetts) 

 to Florida. Occurs casually north to Hudson Bay, Labrador, Newfoundland, 

 and Greenland; also in Bermuda and Cuba. [Closely allied races occur in 

 South America.] ^ 



• Rallus aquaticus aquaticus Linnaeus. Water Rail. [212.1.] 



Rallus aquaticus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 153. (Europa = 

 Great Britain.) 



Range. — Europe, northwestern Africa, and Egypt. Accidental in Greenland 

 (Angmagsalik, 1903 and on the west coast).- [Closel.y allied races occur in 

 northeastern Asia and Persia.] 



Genus PORZANA Vieillot. 



Porzana Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 61. Type, by monotypy, Marouette 

 Buffon = Rallus porzana Linnaeus. 



• Porzana porzana (Linnaeus) . Spotted Crake. [213.] 



Rallus Porzana Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 262. (in Europa ad 

 ripas = France.) 



Range. — Breeds in the northern parts of the Old World from Norway to 

 western Siberia and south to the Mediterranean; rarely in the British Isles. 

 Winters south to India, Sudan, and East Africa, casually farther. Accidental 

 in Greenland (Frederickshaab, Godthaab, Nenortalik, and Julianehaab).^ 



Porzana Carolina (Linnaeus). Sora. [214.] 



Rallus carolinus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 153. Based on 

 The Little American Water Hen Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, 144. (in 

 America septentrionali = Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — Breeds from central British Columbia, southern Mackenzie, 

 Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the lower St. Lawrence River, New Brunswick, 



1 The Pacific coast bird has been separated as R. I. pacificus Dickey (Condor, 

 XXX, 1928, 322). 



2 Helms, Birds of Angmagsalik, 1926, 241. 



3 Bent. BuU. U. S. N. M., No. 135, 1926, 302. 



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