248 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 



Length, about 6; wing, 3^; tail, 1^. 



Eab. — Eastern North America, north to Hudson's Bay, but in Kew 

 England not observed beyond Massachusetts. Apparently nowhere 

 abundant. Winters in Southern States. 



Two obtained in Pembroke Marsh by Colonel Wedderburn in October, 



1847, but not since recorded. 



133. Porzanajamaicensis, (Gm.) Cass. Little Black Eail. 



Ballus jamaicensus, Gm., Lath., Aud. 



Ortygometra jamaicensis, Steph., Bp., Aud., Gosse., Salv. 



Creciscus jamaicensis. Cab., Guudl. 



Forzana jamaicensis, Cass., Coues & Prent., Scl., Scl. & Salv., Schl., Cones, 



Ridg. 

 Aramides {Creciscus) jamaicensis, Gray. 

 Crex pygmcea, Blackwell. 

 Ortygometra chilensis, Bp. 



Length, about 5; wing, 3^; tail, IJ. 



Hab. — South America to Chili. Central America. West Indies. 



North America to New Jersey and Kansas, rare. 



Observed, and also obtained, by Colonel Wedderburn in 1847 and 



1848, and by Mr. Hurdis in 1851, always in the autumn. 



Genus Crex, Bechst. 



134. Crex pratensis, Bechst. Land-Rail; Corn-Crake. 



Ballus crex, Linn., Degl. 



Gallinula crex, Lath. 



Crex pratensis, Bechst., Cass., and authors generally. 



Length, about 10; wing, 5J; tail, 2.15. 



Sah. — Europe; Greenland; Accidental on Atlantic coast of United 

 States. (Baird.) 



Colonel Wedderburn shot the only specimen of this Eui*opean bird 

 ever obtained in Bermuda, on the 25th October, 1847, and sent a notice 

 of its occurrence to " The Zoologist" in 1849. At that time it was prob- 

 ably not known that the species is a straggler to the United States, but 

 laterally several instances of its appearance there have been recorded, 

 so that the fact of its being killed in Bermuda has lost much of the mys- 

 tery which was originally connected with it. 



Sub-family FULICIN^. 

 Genus Gallinula, Briss. 



135. Gallinula galeata^ (Licht.) Bp. Florida Gallinule. 



Crex galeata, Licht. 



Gallinula galeata, Bp., Nutt., Maxim., Tsch., Gosse, Gundl., Bd., Newton, and 



most late authors. 

 Gallinula chloropus, Bp., Aud., Gir. 

 Gallinula chloro])us, var. galeata, Hartl. & Finsch, Ridg. 



