ORDER GRUIFORMES. 95 



SuPERFAMiLY RALLOIDEA. Rails, Gallinules, 

 AND Coots. 



Family RALLIDAE. Rails, Gallinules, and Coots. 

 Subfamily RALLINAE. Rails. 



Genus RALLUS Linnaeus. 



Rallus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 153. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Rallus aquaticus Linnaeus (Fleming, 1821). 



Rallus elegans elegans Audubon. King Rail. [208.] 



Rallus elegans Audubon, Birds Aziier. (folio). III, pi. 203, 1834 (Orn. 

 Biog., Ill, 1835, 27). (Kentucky, South Carolina, Louisiana, and north, 

 to Camden, N. J. and Philadelphia = Charleston, S. C.) 



Range. — Breeds from Nebraska, southern Minnesota, southwestern On- 

 tario, New York, and Massachusetts south to Florida, Louisiana, and Texas, 

 and west to Kansas. Winters mainly in the southern part of its breeding 

 range from New Jersey (occasionally Long Island) southward. Casual north to 

 Manitoba and Maine. [An allied race occurs in Cuba.] 



Rallus obsoletus obsoletus Ridgway. California Clapper Rail. [210.] 



Rallus elegans var. obsoletus Ridgway, Amer. Nat., VIII, No. 2, Feb., 

 1874, 111. (San Francisco, California.) 



Range. — Resident on salt marshes of San Francisco and Monterey bays, 

 California; casual on Humboldt and Tomales bays. Accidental on the 

 Farallon Islands. 



RaHus obsoletus levipes Bangs. Light-footed Rail. [210.1.] 



Rallus levipes Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, I, 45, June 5, 1899. 

 (Newport Landing, Los Angeles [ = Orange] Co., California.) 



Range. — Resident on salt marshes of southern California from Santa 

 Barbara (casual?) south to San Diego and probably Ensenada; now reduced 

 and local. 



Rallus obsoletus beldingi Ridgway. Belding's Rail. [209.] 



Rallus beldingi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 345 [Sept. 11]. 

 (Espiritu Santo Islands, Lower California.) 



Range. — Resident in mangrove swamps and salt marshes in the Cape 

 district of Lower California, north on the Pacific side to San Quintfn Bay and 

 on the Gulf coast to San Jose Island. 



