CAROLINA RAIL. 



(Rallus carolinus, Bonap. Syn. No. 27'2. Rail, Wilson', vi. p. 27. 

 p]. 48. fig. 1. [male.] GaUimda Carolina, Lath. Ind. ii. p. 771. 

 sp. 17. Soree Gallinule, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 491. No. 409. 

 Soree, Catesby, i. p. 70. Little American Water Hen, (GaUi- 

 mda minor J Edav. pi. 144. Le Rale de Virginie, Buff. Ois. viii. 

 p. 165. Phil. Museum, No. 442G.J 



Sp. Charact. — Varied with olive-brown and black; feathers of the 

 back and wings penciled with white margins ; breast and flanks 

 mostly slate color, the latter waved with white ; edge of the 1st 

 primary white. — Male with the centre of the throat black. In 



* i\\e female and yoimg the throat is white. 



The Soree, or Common Rail of America, wliich assem- 

 ble in such nmnbers on the reedy shores of the larger rivers, 

 in the Middle and adjoining warmer States, at the approach 

 of autumn, and which afford such abundant employ to 

 the sportsman, at that season, like most of the tribe to 

 which it belongs, is a bird of passage, wintering generally 

 south of the limits of the Union. They begin to make 

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