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white ; feathers immediately beneath tail, buff, or buff and white ; 

 sides of body, flanks, and lining of wings, barred white and brown, 

 the brown replaced more or less on some individuals by black. 

 Legs dull yellowish green. 



Young. Without the black about head and throat, the slate 

 color of breast, etc., being brownish in these regions, with dingy 

 white throat. Upper parts generally of a lighter, more yellowish 



No. 37. Yon 



brown. Lower surface of body light buff ; the fore-breast simi- 

 lar to, or having the colors of, the upper parts. In other re- 

 spects much as in adult. 



Length eight and a half to nine inches ; extent about four- 

 teen inches. 



Range, as given in A. O. U. Check List (1886): Temperate 

 North America, but most common in the Eastern Province, 

 breeding chiefly northward. South to West Indies and north- 

 ern South America. 



CAROLINA CRAKE: CAROLINA CRAKE GALLINULE: SOREE 

 GALLINULE: LITTLE AMERICAN WATER-HEN : CAROLINA RAIL : 

 AMERICAN RAIL: COMMON RAIL: SORA RAIL. 



