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Rallus longiréstris BoDDAERT. 
RaNGE.— Northern South America, West Indies, and coast of Texas. 
a. [Rallus longirostris longirostris. [xtralimital.] 
b. Rallus longirostris caribeus Ripaway. Caribbean Clapper Rail. [211.2.] 
Rallus longirostris var. caribeus Ripaway, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, V, 
July, 1880, 140. (West Indies.) 
RanGeE.— Texas (Corpus Christi and Galveston) and the West Indies. 
Rallus virginianus LINN&us. Virginia Rail. [212.] 
Rallus virginianus Linnus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 263. (Virginia.) 
RanGE.— North America. Breeds from British Columbia, south- 
ern Saskatchewan, southern Keewatin, Ontario, southern Quebec, 
and New Brunswick south to southern California, Utah, Kansas, 
Missouri, Illinois, New Jersey, and eastern North Carolina, and in 
Toluca Valley, Mexico; winters from Oregon, Utah, and Colorado 
to Lower California and Guatemala, also in the lower Mississippi 
States, and from North Carolina (casually Massachusetts) to Florida; 
occurs casually north to northern Quebec and Newfoundland. 
GENUS PORZANA VIEILLOT. 
Porzana Vir1LuoT, Analyse, 1816, 61. Type, by monotypy, ‘ Marouette, 
Buff.” = Rallus porzana LINNXvs. 
[Porzdéna porzdna (LINN=us). Spotted Crake. ([213.] 
Rallus porzana LinnN=vs, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 262. (Europe.) 
RancE.— Northern parts of the Old World; occasional in Green- 
land.] 
Porzana carolina (LINN&us). Sora. ([214.] 
Rallus carolinus Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 1538. (Hudson 
Bay.) 
