80 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 556, C 47, R576, C68i.] 



GEOG. DIST. Temperate North America, north to Massachusetts, 

 northern Illinois, and Oregon ; south to West Indies and Guatemala. 



216.1. Forzana coturniculus (RIDGW.). 



Farallone Rail. 



Porzana jamaicen sis var. coturniculus " BAIRD, MS." RIDGW. Am. 



Nat. VIII. Feb. 1874, in. 

 Porzana coturniculus RIDGW. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XIII. 



1890, 311. 



[B , C 4700, R 5760, C 682.] 



GEOG. DIST. Known only from the type specimen, from Faral- 

 lone Islands, California. 



GENUS CREX BECHSTEIN. 



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

 crex LINN. 



[217.] Crex crex (LINN.). 



Corn Crake. 



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



Crex crex SHARPE, LAYARD'S Bds. S. Africa, 1884, 611. 



[B 558, C 471, R 577, C 683.] 



GEOG. DIST. Europe and northern Asia ; casual in Greenland, 

 Bermuda, and eastern North America. 



SUBFAMILY GALLINULIN^i. GALLINULES. 



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. 



