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Edb. — Entire Uuited States and British Provinces; breeds commonly 

 in New England; winters in Southern States and beyond. South to 

 Guatemala; Cuba. (Coues.) 



One was shot by Mr. Ilurdis on the Gth November, 1851. He re- 

 marks: "This is the only genuine Hail met with — a singular circum- 

 stance, when we bear in miud that all the Galliuules and Crake-Galli- 

 nules known to the continent of North America have been obtained 

 in the Bermudas." No other instance of this bird's occurren(;e is on 



record. 



Genus Poezana, Vieil. 



131. Forzana Carolina^ (L\mi.) Gah. SoraEail; Carolina Rail. 



ItaUus caroUnus, Liuii., 6m., Bp., Sw. & Kicli., Aud. 



liallus (Crex) caroUnus, Bp.,Nutt. 



Gallinula caroJina, Lath., Sab. 



Ortygometra Carolina, Bp., Aud., Gosse, Gir., Eeinh. 



Porzana Carolina, Bd., Gundl., Scl., Newton, Dress., Hayd., Scl. & Salv., 



Lawr., Sund., and of all late U. S. writers. 

 Aramides {Mustelirallus) Carolina, Gray. 

 Crcx Carolina, Hart. 

 Ballua stolidus, Vieil. 



Length, about 8J; wing, 4^; tail, 2. 



Hah. — Entire temperate N, A., winters in Southern States and be- 

 yond. South to Venezuela. Various West Indian Islands. Greenland. 

 Accidental in Europe. (Coues.) 



Visits Bermuda regularly, arriving early in September (one has been 

 shot on the 24:th August) and remaining till November, a few lingering 

 on through the winter. On their vernal migration they frequently ap- 

 pear in considerable numbers in March and April. I have seen them, 

 as late as the 1st May. An extraordinary large flight visited the isl- 

 ands in October, 1849, departing in a body after a three-weeks' stay. 

 These birds are a great nuisance to the gunner in search of snipe and 

 other denizens of the marshes, as they bother a dog sadly both by their 

 numbers and their skulking habits; and they themselves are not worth, 

 powder and shot, except immediately after their arrival. 



132. Porzana novehoracensis, (Gm.) Cass. Little Yellow Rail. 



Fulica novehoracensin, Gm. 



Gallinula noveboracensis, Lath. 



Ortygometra 7ioveboracensis, Stepb., Bp., Aud., Gir., Putn. 



Ballu8 noveboracensis, Bp., Nutt., Sw. &, Ricb., Aud. 



Coturnicops novehoraceiisis, Bp. 



Porzana noveboracensis, Cass., Coues & Prent., Allen, Cones, Dress., Scl. & 



Salv., Lawr., Mayu., Eidg. 

 Aramides (Coturnicojis) noveboracensis, Gray. 

 Perdix hudsonica, Latb. 

 Pallus ruficollis, Vieil. 



