Birds of Indiana. 675 



and generally are not found Avhere the water is deep. "The call of this 

 species is rendered crick-cnk-rik-k-k-k" (E. E. Thompson). It was 

 taken at Eock Lake, Fulton County, September 1, 1894 (Ulrey and 

 Wallace); Hyde Park, 111., September 19, 1893 (Parker); Borden, Ind., 

 September 11, 1894 (E. S. Hallett); Greencastle, Ind., August 1, 1894 

 (A. Black, J. Earlle). 



38. Genus PORZANA Vieillot. 



a^. Secondaries without white. 



6\ "Wing over 4.00; olive brown above, striped with black. 



Subgenus Porzaxa. P. Carolina (Linn.). 78 

 h-. Wing under 3.50; dusky, usually speckled with white. 



Subgenus Creciscus Cabanis. P. jamaicensis (Gmel.). 80 

 ci-. Secondaries white. Subgenus Coturxicops Bonaparte. 



P. noveboracensis (Gmel.). 79 



Subgenus Porzana. 



•78. (214). Porzana Carolina (Linn.). 



Sera. 



Adult. — AVith the face and central line of the throat, black; the rest 

 of the throat, line over eye, and especially the breast, more or less in- 

 tensel)^, slate-gray; the sides of the breast usually with some obsolete 

 whitish barring and speckling. Immature. — Without the black, the 

 throat whitish, the breast brown. 



Length, 7.85-9.75; wing, 4.15-4.30; bill, .75-.90; tarsus, 1.25-1.35. 



Range. — ISTorthern South America and West Indies, north to Man- 

 itoba, Hudson Ba}^, and casually to Greenland. Breeds from Louis- 

 iana (Mcllhenny) northward. Winters from southern Illinois and 

 South Carolina southward. 



Nest, of grass and rushes, on ground in marshs. Eggs, 8-20; brown- 

 ish buff, spotted with brown; 1.26 by .90. 



Common migrant throughout the State; summer resident in the 

 northern part, where it breeds commonly. 



