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Lake; Chemawawin; Winnipeg; Winnipegosis ; Reabwin) ; southern 

 Saskatchewan (Indian Head) ; Montana (Columbia Falls; Great 

 Falls; Fort Keogh) ; and southern British Columbia (Beaver Creek; 

 Goldstream; Chilliwack; and probably 158-mile House and Okana- 

 gan) ; south to North Carolina (Gull Shoal) ; Ohio (Lewiston Res- 

 ervoir) ; Indiana (Bluffton) ; Kentucky (Henderson) ; Illinois (Chi- 

 cago; Mount Carmel; Vandalia) ; Missouri (rarely — Clark County) ; 

 Iowa (Newton; Boone); Nebraska (London; Lincoln; Valentine); 

 Colorado (Clear Creek; Fountain; San Luis Lakes); New Mexico 

 (probably, Lake Burford) ; Mexico (Valley of Mexico; Lerma; pos- 

 sibly Santa Cruz; Sonora; Tizimin, Yucatan) ; Nevada (Carson 

 City) ; California (throughout south to Escondido) ; and Lower 

 California (Pacific slope of the northwestern section of the peninsula, 

 San Ramon, and probably El Rosario). 



Winters from North Carolina (Pea Island) ; southern Illinois 

 (Mount Carmel) ; Arkansas (Stuttgart) ; Colorado (Clear Creek; 

 Barr) ; Utah (Provo; St. George ?) ; and southern British Columbia 

 (Chilliwack; Okanagan) ; south to Florida (uncommon in northern 

 half of State; Coronado Beach; Orlando; Cedar Keys; Lukens; 

 St. Marks; Pensacola; Daytona Beach; Leon County; Goose Creek; 

 Wakulla County; Tarpon Springs; Sanibel Island; Titusville; Fort 

 Myers) ; Bermuda (rarely) ; the Gulf States; Mexico (Jalapa; Vera- 

 cruz ; Lerma, Valley of Mexico ; Sinaloa, Mazatlan) ; Lower California 

 (San Quentin; Cape district; Colorado delta); and to Guatemala 

 (Antigua; Dueiias; CiudacI Vieja — taken only in September and 

 October). 



Casual in summer in Newfoundland (Reeks) and Labrador (Hamil- 

 ton Inlet ?) ; in winter north to Massachusetts (Barnstable; Cape Cod; 

 Worcester) ; New York (Long Island) ; New Jersey (near Trenton) ; 

 Maryland (Easton) ; Virginia (Virginia Beach) ; and Montana 

 (Helena). 



Accidental in Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and Bermuda. 



Type locality. — Etats Unis= Pennsylvania. 



[Ralliisli virginimius (not of Linnaeus, Syst. Nat, ed. 12, i, 1766, 263: Virginia; 

 based on Catesby, 1, 70; Brisson, v, 175) Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 17S9, 

 716 (Pennsylvania). — Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1847, 40 (Jamaica; 

 Mexico; United States).— Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba).— 

 GuNDLACH, Rep. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-66, 361 (Cuba). — Lawrence, Ann. 

 Lye. Nat. Hist, New Yorlj, viii, 1866, 295 (vicinity New York City).— Coues, 

 Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 273.— Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 

 1873, 139.— Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 29 

 (Cuba).— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 94. 



Rallus virginimius Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 432. — Wilson, Amer. Orn., vii, 1813, 

 109, pi. 62, fig. 1 (not of vol. vi, 1812, pi. 48, fig. 1, which = sora rail).— 

 Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ii, 1827, 334 ; Geogr. and Comp. 

 List, 1838, 53.— NuTTAXL, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Water Birds, 

 1834, 205.--AUDUBON, Orn. Biogr., iii, 1935, 41, pi. 205 ; v, 1839, 573 ; Synopsis, 



