BIRDS OF MADISON COUNTY 11 



Order PALUDICOLAE. (Cranes, rails, etc.) 

 Family RALLIDAE. (Rails, gallinules, and coots.) 



34. (212) Rallus virginianus Linn. 



Virginia rail. 



Fairly common summer resident. Breeds. Nest 

 built entirely of reeds, containing 10 incubated eggs found June 5, 

 1897, in marsh along west shore of Woodman's Pond. 



35. (214) Porzana Carolina (Linn.). 



Sora. 



Common transient visitant. Arrives about Sept. 

 1st. Departs about Oct. 5. 



36. (219) Gallinula galeata (Licht.). 



Florida gallinule. 



Not uncommon summer resident. Breeds. 



37. (221) Fulica Americana Gmel. 



American coot. 



Not uncommon in September on Mud Pond and 

 vicinity, just outside and south of Hamilton. 



Order LIMICOLAE. (Shore birds.) 

 Family SCOLOPACIDAE. (Snipes, sandpipers, etc.) 



38. (224) Steganopus tricolor Vieill. 



Wilson's phalarope. 



One specimen taken at the eastern end of Oneida 

 Lake October 6, 1883. R. & B. List* p. 112. 



39. (228) Philohela minor (Gmel.). 



American woodcock. 



Formerly very common summer resident. Very few 

 have been seen within the last three years. Breeds. 



* Birds of Oneida County, by Win. L. Ralph, M. D. and Egbert Bagg, from the Transactions 

 of the Oneida Historical Society, Vol. Ill, p. 101, Utica, N. Y., 1886. 



