142 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B -, C - R 573, C 678.] 

 HAB. Northern parts of the Old World ; occasional in Greenland. 



214. Porzana Carolina (LINN.). 



Sora. 



Rallus carolinus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 153. 

 Porzana Carolina BAIRD, Lit. Rec. & Jour. Linn. Assoc. Penn. Coll. 

 Oct. 1845, 255- 



[B 555, C 648, R 574, C 679.] 



HAB. Temperate North America, but most common in the Eastern 

 Province, breeding chiefly northward. South to the West Indies and 

 Northern South America. 



SUBGENUS COTURNICOPS BONAPARTE. 



Coturnicops BONAP. Compt. Rend. XLIIL 1856, 599. Type, Fulica 

 noveboracensis GMEL. 



215. Porzana noveboracensis (GMEL.). 



Yellow Rail. 



Fulica noveboracensis GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 701. 

 Porzana noveboracensis BAIRD, Lit. Rec. & Jour. Linn. Assoc. Penn. 

 Coll. Oct. 1845, 255. 



[B 557, C 469, R 575, C 680.] 



HAB. Eastern North America, from Nova Scotia and Hudson's 

 Bay west to Utah and Nevada. No extralimital record except Cuba 

 and the Bermudas. 



SUBGENUS CRECISCUS CABANIS. 

 Creciscus CAB. J. f. O. 1856, 428. Type, Rallus jamaicensis LINN. 



216. Porzana jamaicensis (GMEL.). 



Black Rail. 



Rallus jamaicensis GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 718. 

 Porzana jamaicensis BAIRD, Lit. Rec. & Jour. Linn. Assoc. Penn. 

 Coll. Oct. 1845, 257. 



[B 556, C 470, R 576, C 681.] 



