CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. ISI 
LXXXII. PORZANA VIEILLor. 1816. 
213. Spotted Crake. 
Porzana porzana (LINN.) Boucarb. 1876. 
One specimen of this species is said to have been shot at Fredericks- 
haab, Greenland, some years ago. (Hagerup.) One obtained at 
Godthaab, September 28th, 1841; a second taken at Nenortalik 
was sent to Copenhagen in 1856. (Arct. Man.) Taken again in 
1878. (Wuange.) 
214. Carolina Rail. Sora. 
Porzana carolina (LINN.) BAIRD. 1845. 
Casual in Greenland. One killed at Sukkertop, October ard, 
1823. (Arct. Man.) Several taken in recent years in Greenland. 
(Winge.) A summer migrant in Newfoundland, rare in Nova 
Scotia, breeding in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec 
and Ontario, apparently increasing in numbers to the west. Strag- 
glers are found on Hudson bay and Spreadborough found them 
breeding at Moose Factory, James bay, June 9th, 1896, and a nest 
with ten fresh eggs on the west coast of the bay, July roth, 1904. 
It no doubt breeds throughout the whole wooded region west of 
Hudson bay. 
This is a common species, breeding from Manitoba westward 
through the prairie region, Rocky mountains at Banff, and north 
to lat. 55°; British Columbia, from Kamloops to the Pacific coast. 
Sir John Richardson places its northern limit at lat. 62°, and Ber- 
nard Ross places it on the Mackenzie river at Big island in nearly 
the same latitude. Spreadborough found it to be common in all 
the marshes between Lesser Slave lake and Peace River Landing, 
Atha. This species is unknown in Alaska. 
BREEDING Notes.—tThis species, like the Virginia rail, breeds 
in all marshes of sufficient size throughout western Ontario. (IV. 
Saunders.) Nesting in clumps of rushes and grass growing in water. 
Nest rather compact, consisting of grass placed from six inches to 
one foot above the water. Young leave the nest as soon as hatched. 
A nest was taken at Deep lake, Indian Head, Sask., on June 29th, 
1892, which contained three eggs and one young one just hatched, 
