I40 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



207. Aramus giganteus (Bonap.). 



Limpkin. 



Rail us giganteus BoNAP, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. V. 1825, 31. 

 Arafnus giganteus Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 657. 



[B481, C 464, R581, C671.] 



Hab. Florida, West Indies, and Atlantic coast of Central America. 



Family RALLID.^. Rails, Gallinules, and Coots. 



Subfamily RALLIN.<Sj. Rails. 



Genus RALLUS Linnaeus. 

 Rallus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, L 1758, 153. Type, R. aquaticus Linn. 



208. Rallus elegans Aud. 



lOng Rail. 



Rallus elegans Aud. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 27, pi- 203. 



[B 552, C 466, R 569, C 676.] 



Hab. Fresh-water marshes of the Eastern Province of the United 

 States, from the Middle States, Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, and Kan- 

 sas southward. Casually north to Massachusetts, Maine, and Ontario. 



209. Rallus beldingl Ridgw. 



Belding's Rail. 



Callus beldingi Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V. 1882, 345. 

 [B— ,C-, R-, C-.] 

 Hab. Espiritu Santo Islands, Gulf of California. 



210. Rallus obsoletus Ridgw. 



California Clapper Rail. 



Rallus elegans vzx. obsoletus Ridgw. Am. Nat. VTII. 1871, in. 

 Rallus obsoletus Ridgw. BuU. Nutt. Orn. Club, V. July, 1880, 139. 



