Family RALLID^E. 



KING RAIL. 

 208. Rallns elegans. 18 in. 



Back handsomely patterned with black, 

 olive-gray and brown; neck and breast cin- 

 namon-brown; flanks sharply barred with 

 black and white. 



Note. Loud, explosive gruntings. 



Range. Breeds throughout eastern U. S. 

 Winters in the southern states. 

 CLAPPER RAIL. 

 211. Rallus crepitans crepitans. 15 in 



Above olive-gray with little black mark- 

 ing. Breast brown. Flanks barred with gray. 



Notes. Loud and clattering 



Nest. Of grasses on the ground in 

 marshes. Six to fourteen buff eggs with 

 brown spots. 



Range. Salt marshes from southern New 

 England to N. Car., La. Clapper Rail (R. c. 

 saturate) occurs on coast of La.; Fla. Clap- 

 per in Fla.; and Wayne Clapper on South 

 Atlantic coast. 



