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178. LOUISIANA CLAPPEE RAIL. 

 Paler than last above, but more dis- 

 tinctly streaked, and red below deeper. 

 Coast of Louisiana. 



179. FLOPJDA CLAPPER RAIL. 



Bill more slender, much darker, nearly 

 black above, ashy-gray below, mixed with 

 cinnamon. Salt marshes of Western Fla. 



180. SORA. 



Smaller, 9, bill shorter than head; face 

 and throat black; bill, yellow; feet, green; 

 brownish-yellow above broadly streaked 

 with brown, dotted and short-lined with 

 white; breast and sides of neck, bluish; re- 

 maining under parts, white; sides and flanks 

 banded with black. Young are over washed 

 with reddish below and black markings are 

 absent. Notes not as rapid as with the 

 Virginia Rail; gives a whistling cry like 

 cur-iue and some short chuckles. When a 

 gun is discharged or a stone thrown into 

 the water of the marsh that it inhabits, will 



