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Order PALUDICOL.E. Cranes, Rails and Courlans. 



Suborder JRalli. Courlans, Rails, Gallinules and 



Coots. 



Family Eallidce. Rails, Gallinnles and Coots. 



Subfamily Rallince. Rails. 



Genus Rallus. Linnaeus. 



58. Virginia Hail. R. virginianus. Linn. 



" Summer Resident," common. One man shot 

 thirty-two of these gamy-looking little rails over a 

 pointer dog one day in the spring of 1890 on the 

 islands at Vercheres, twenty-four miles below Mont- 

 real, and a large number were shot at the same time 

 by others (Craig), and evidently not many are left 

 to breed here. One was shot in the last week of 

 October, 1891, at Lake St. Peter, and one October 

 7, 1893, on Isle-aux-Noix by Mr. Denne. 



Genus Porzana. Vieillot. 

 Subgenus " Porzana." 



59. Sora. (Carolina Rail.) P. Carolina. (Linn.) 



" Summer Resident," common. Breeds in most 

 of our marshes and swamps, and migrates south at 

 the first hard frosts in the autumn. I found two 

 nests of this species in the marshy Longueuil flats, 

 June 8, 1889, one of which contained three fresh 



