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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



* Group 4. Wing, over 6.50 inches long, 





Virginia Rail. 



Kim? Rail. 



Black Rail. 



Sora Rail. 



Breast, tinged with rufous checks ; rufous throat, whitish ; hack, streaked ; bill, long and 

 slightly curved. Rallus elegans. King Rail. 



See No. 165. 



SUBFAMILY FULICIN/E. 

 Coots. 



Bill, short and pointed; forehead, with more or less of a shield; toes, with large lobate 

 webs; head, blackish; back, dark slaty gray; imderparts, dark asli gray, whitish, on abdomen. 



Fulica americana. American Coot, flud Hen. Blue Peter. 



See No. 178. 



For directions for measurement, see page 9. 



