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Virginia (Wallops Island); and North Carolina (Gull Shoal). South 

 to North Carolina (Gull Shoal); Ohio (Lewiston Reservoir); Indiana 

 (Bluffton); Kentucky (Hendereon) ; Illinois (Mount Carmel and 

 Vandalia); Missouri (Clark County); Iowa (Newton and Boone); 

 Nebraska (London, Lincoln, and Valentine); Colorado (Clear Creek 

 [near Denver], Fountain, and San Luis Lakes) ; probably New Mexico 

 (Lake Burford); Mexico (Lerma); Lower California (San Ramon); 

 Utah (Salt Lake City); Nevada (Carson City); and California (Lone 

 Pine and Escondido). West to California (Escondido, Fullerton, 

 Los Angeles, Tulare Lake, Paicines, Haywards, Eagle Lake, and Fort 

 Crook); Oregon (Klamath Lake, Newport, and Beaverton); Wash- 

 ington (Tacoma, Waldron Island, and Bellingham Bay); and British 

 Columbia (Victoria, Beaver Creek, and probably 158-mile House). 



The Virginia rail was found at Tizimin, Yucatan, on June 23 (spec- 

 imen in British Museum). It is casual in summer in Newfound- 

 land (Reeks) and there is a record of one in 1891 from Hamilton Inlet, 

 Labrador. 



Winter range. — North to British Columbia (Chilliwack and Okana- 

 gan) ; Utah (Provo) ; Colorado (Clear Creek [near Denver], and Barr) ; 

 Arkansas (Stuttgart) ; Illinois (Mount Carmel) ; and North Carolina 

 (Pea Island). East to North Carolina (Pea Island) ; rarely Bermuda; 

 South Carolina (Charleston and Sea Islands) ; Georgia (Blackbeard 

 Island and Darien) ; Florida (mouth of St. Johns River, Orlando, 

 Titusville, and Fort Myers) ; Cuba (Isle of Pines) ; Mexico, Vera Cruz 

 (Jalapa) ; and Guatemala (Antigua and Duenas). South to Guate- 

 mala (Duenas); State of Mexico (Lerma); Sinaloa (Mazatlan); 

 Lower California (probably San Jose del Cabo and San Quentin) ; 

 and California (Riverside and Tomales Bay). West to California 

 (Tomales Bay) ; Oregon (Salem) ; Washington (Walla Walla and pro- 

 bably Port Townscnd) ; and British Columbia (Chilliwack). 



Casual in winter north to Virginia (Virginia Beach, January 6, 

 1912); Maryland (Easton, January 20, 1891) ; New Jersey (at a warm 

 spring near Trenton, during January, 1869) ; New York (Long Island, 

 February 6 to 13, 1885); Massachusetts (Barnstable, December 31, 

 1894, Cape Cod, December, 1892, and Worcester, January 1, 1891); 

 and Montana (Helena, February 22, and March 12, 1911). 



Spring migration. — Early dates of arrival are: South Carolina, 

 Charleston, April 1, 1912; North Carolina, Raleigh, March 7, 1891, 

 and Highlands, April 6, 1910; West Virginia, Scott Depot, April 

 24, 1907, and Winfield, April 14, 1908; District of Columbia, April 

 2,1903; Pennsylvania, State College, April 19, 1916; New Jersey; 

 New York, Bear Mountain near Stony Point, March 13,*1920, 

 Brauchport, April 7, 1905, Ithaca, April 11, 1910, Geneva, April 15, 



