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Shufeldl, Journ. Camp. Morji/i. lHH8, art. xvii. p]i. 1-10; C'un/, 

 2i. W. Intl. p.i'o6 (1,SM9) ; Scott, Auk, vi. p. \')b (18S!J: Florida) ; 

 Sftlnn, Ibis, IHSU, p. .■i78 (("ozumel); Mmnis, Auk, vii. p. 51 

 (1890: Arizona); Thumps. Froc. U.S. Nat. Miis. xiii. p. 4!}4 

 (1891: Manitoba); Srotf, Auk, ix. p. 11 (1892; Jamaica); i</. 

 t. c. p. 21l' (I'lorida, winter) ; Attw. Auk, ix. p. 2'-i2 (San Anto- 

 nio) ; Cherrie, t. c. p. iJ39 (San Jose, Costa Rica). 



Aramides Carolina, G)-ai/, Hancl-l. B. iii. p. 60, no. 10431 (1871). 



Crex Carolina, Hartim/, 'llandb. Brit. B. p. 152 (1872) ; Seeb. Hist. 

 Brit. B. ii. p. 541 (1884). 



Galeolimnas Carolina, Heine ^- Reichen. Notnencl. Mus. Ilein. p. 320 

 (1890J. 



Adult male. General colour above olivaceou.s brown, varied with 

 black centres and white margins to the feathers ; the lower back 

 and rump darker, the black centres to the feathers being more 

 pronounced ; wing-coverts for the most part uniform olivaceous 

 brown, with white spots and freckles on the greater series ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and (|uills dusky brown, externally olivaceous 

 brown, the bastard-wing feathers and outer primary edged with 

 white ; the innermost secondaries centred with black and edged 

 with white like the back ; tail-feathers olivaceous brown, with 

 blackish centres ; crown of head and neck more rufous brown than 

 the back and more uniform ; forehead and centre of crown black, 

 as well as the lores, fore part of cheeks, and centre of throat and 

 fore neck ; a narrow eyebrow, sides of face, sides of neck, and 

 chest ashy grey ; breast white, the lower flanks barred with black ; 

 the sides of the body brown, barred with white, each white bar 

 with a narrow border-lino of black ; thighs brown, under tail- 

 coverts white, the vent tinged with fulvous ; under wing-coverts 

 brown, edged with white, the edge of the wing white ; axillaries 

 brown, distinctly barred with white : "bill j^ellow at base, dusky 

 towards the end; feet yellowish green; claws light brown; iris 

 bright cliestnut "•i(X J. Audubon). Total length S inches, culmen 

 0*9, wing 4'3, tail 1*9, tarsus 1"4.5, middle toe and claw 1*75. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 

 S inches, culmen 0-75, wing 4"25, tail 2-85, tarsus 1"1, middle toe 

 and claw l-fio. 



Younr/. Upper surface resembling that of the adult, but the 

 under surface for tlie most jjart white : tlie lower throat and fore 

 neck sandy buff; the under tail-coverts light tawny butf ; sides of 

 the breast brown, and the flanks black, both barred across with 

 white ; lores and sides of face ashy brown ; a supraloral streak, 

 eyebrow, and cheeks sandy buff. 



Tlie adult plumage is gained in the first winter, but the grey 

 feathers of the neck still retain brownish margins. 



JJab. Temperate Xorth Ameri&i generally, wintering in Central 

 America, the West India Islands, and Northern South America. 



«. Juv. sk. Avigait, Greenland, Sept. 30 Hargitt Coll. 



(//. C. Mii/hr). 

 b. Imm. sk. Hudson's Bay. Sir G. Back [P.]. 



