ORDER PALUDICOL^E. 103 



Rallus longirostris BODDAERT. 

 RANGE. Northern South America, West Indies, and coast of Texas. 



a. [Rallus longirostris longirostris. ExtralimitaL] 



6. Rallus longirostris caribseus RIDGWAY. Caribbean Clapper Rail. [211.2.] 



Rallus longirostris var. caribous RIDGWAY, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, V, 

 July, 1880, 140. (West Indies.) 



RANGE. Texas (Corpus Christi and Galveston) and the West Indies. 



Rallus virginianus LINN^US. Virginia Rail. [212.] 



Rallus virginianus LINN^US, 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 VIEILLOT, Analyse, 1816, 61. Type, by monotypy, "Marouette, 

 Buff." = Rallus porzana LINNAEUS. 



[Porzana porzana (LINNAEUS). Spotted Crake. [213.] 



Rattus porzana LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 262. (Europe.) 



RANGE. Northern parts of the Old World ; occasional in Green- 

 land.] 



Porzana Carolina (LINNAEUS). Sora. [214.] 



Rallus carolinus LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 153. (Hudson 

 Bay.) 



