ORDER PALUDICOL^:. 143 



HAB. Temperate North America, north to Massachusetts, North- 

 ern Illinois, and Oregon ; south to West Indies and in Western South 

 America to Chili. 



216 a. Porzana jamaicensis coturniculus BAIRD. 



Farallone Rail. 



Porzana jamaicensis var. coturniculus " BAIRD, MS." RIDGW. Am. 

 Nat. VIII. Feb. 1874, in. 



[B , C 4700, R 576 a,C 682.] 

 HAB. Farallone Islands, California. 



GENUS CREX BECHSTEIN. 



Crex BECHST. Orn. Taschb. Deutschl. 1802, 336. Type, Rallus crex 

 LINN. 



[217.] Crex crex (LINN.). 



Corn Crake. 



Rallus crex LIXN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 153. 

 Crex crex STEJN. Stand. Nat. Hist. IV. 1885, 128. 



[B 558, C 47*. * $77, C 683.] 



HAB. Europe and Northern Asia ; casual in Greenland, Bermudas, 

 and Eastern North America. 



SUBFAMILY GALLINULIN^l. GALLINUL^ES. 



GENUS IONORNIS REICHENBACH. 

 lonornis REICH. Syst. Av. 1852, p. xxi. Type, Fulica martinica LINN. 



218. lonornis martinica (LINN.). 



Purple Gallinule. 



Fulica martinica LINN. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 259. 

 lonornis martinica REICH. Syst. Av. 1852, p. xxi. 



[B 561, C 473, R 578, C 685.] 



HAB. South Atlantic and Gulf States, casually northward to Maine, 

 New York, Wisconsin, etc. ; south throughout the West Indies to 

 Brazil. 



