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Order PALUDICOL^. Cranes, Rails, etc. 



Suborder RALLI. Rails, Gallinules, Coots, etc. 



Family RALLID^E. Rails, Gallinules, and Coots. 

 Subfamily RALLIN^E. Rails. 

 Genus RALLUS Linnaeus. 

 86. (208). Rallus elegans And. King Rail. 

 An accidental visitor to the state. Only two specimens recorded 

 up to date. 



County Records. Cumberland, "taken at Scarborough" (Brown in 

 Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, Vol. 7, p. 60), "one shot at Falmouth by Walter 

 Rich, Sept. 19th, 1895" (Brock in the Auk, Vol. 13, p. 79). 



*7. (211). Rallus crepitans Gmel. Clapper Rail. 

 An accidental visitor from the south which has only been taken 

 in the extreme southern part of the state. 



County Records. Androscoggin, "one taken at Sabattus Pond, in 

 1874. by C. F. Nason" (Smith's List of Birds of Maine, Forest and 

 Stream, Vol. 20, p. 124) ; Cumberland, "rare" (Brown's Cat. Birds of 

 Portland, p. 30) ; York, (Brown in Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. 4, p. 108). 



88. (212). Rallus virginianus Linn. Virginia Rail. 



A rare summer resident in most parts of the state, and probably 

 breeds wherever found in the summer. It frequents meadows 

 and marshes near the various ponds, and sluggish streams running 

 therefrom. 



County Records. Androscoggin, "rare summer resident" (Johnson) ; 

 Cumberland, "rare summer resident" (Mead) ; Franklin, "rare summer 

 resident" (Swain) ; Kennebec, "W. R. Guilford has a specimen shot at 

 Waterville" (Morrell) ; Knox, "rare migrant" (Rackliff) ; Oxford, "found 

 young in down at Fryeburg in August. 1883" (Mead) ; Peuobscot, "rare" 

 (Knight) ; Sagadahoc, "common in fall" (Spinney) ; Somerset, "found 

 a nest with five newly hatched young and two sterile eggs at Hart- 

 land on August 5, 1896" (Knight) ; Washington, "common" (Boardman). 



Genus PORZANA Vieillot. 

 Subgenus PORZANA. 



89. (214). Porzana Carolina (Linn.). Sora. 



This species is of quite general distribution throughout the state, 

 and while of rare or local occurrence in some counties it is quite 

 common in others. 



