RALLIDjE — RAILING: RAILS AND CRAKES. 



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sides of breast usually also with some obsolete whitish barring and speckling. Young: "Without 

 this black, throat whitish, breast brown. Chicks : Blackish, the down bristling with jet, and a 

 beard of orange bristles on the throat. Length 8.00-9.00; extent 12.00-1:3.00 ; wing 4.00- 



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4. .')(); tail abnnt'J.OO; bill (Ldz-O.?"); tarsus I .:{.•{; niiddlf t...- an.l claw I.(i7. 'r.Mniu-mto North 

 America, exceedingly abundant during the migration in tlie roedy swamps of the Atlantic 

 States, in August and September, wlirn tens of tliousands atr Uill''d .•v.iv y.;ir. Hrcc.l.s 



