FAMILY K'AI.LID.K. KAILS. 



91» 



Group 3. Wing, 4.75 to 6.50 inches long. 



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Feathers on back, dark olive, edged with gray ; cheeks and ear coverts, pale clnna= 

 mon rufous, sometimes blackish iu young birds ; bill, over 1.25 iuches long. I'sually louiid 

 near fresh water. Hallus der/ans. King Rail. 



See No. 1G5. 



Feathers on the back, black, edged with grayish olive ; cheeks and ear coverts, gray. 

 I^ret'ers salt-water marshes. Ealliu^ lou(/iroslris creintans aiuJ raricties. Clapper Rail. 



See No. 16G. 



* For directions for measurement, see page 9. 



