248 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 
Length, about 6; wing, 34; tail, 13. 
Hab.—Eastern North America, north to Hudson’s Bay, but in New 
England not observed beyond Massachusetts. Apparently nowhere 
abundant. Winters in Southern States. 
Two obtained in Pembroke Marsh by Colonel Wedderburn in October, 
1847, but not since recorded. 
133. Porzana jamaicensis, (Gmm.) Cass. Little Black Rail. 
Rallus jamaicensus, Gm., Lath., Aud. 
Ortygometra jamaicensis, Steph., Bp., Aud., Gosse., Salv. 
Creciscus jamaicensis, Cab., Gundl. 
Porzana jamaicensis, Cass., Coues & Prent., Scl., Scl. & Salv., Schl., Coues, 
Ridg. 
Aramides (Creciscus) jamaicensis, Gray. 
Crex pygmea, Blackwell. 
Ortygometra chilensis, Bp. 
Length, about 5; wing, 34; tail, 13. 
Hab. — South America to Chili. Central America. West Indies. 
North America to New Jersey and Kansas, rare. 
Observed, and also obtained, by Colonel Wedderburn in 1847 and 
1848, and by Mr. Hurdis in 1851, always in the autumn. 
Genus CREX, Bechst. 
134. Crex pratensis, Bechst. Land-Rail; Corn-Crake. 
Rallus crexz, Linn., Degl. 
Gallinula crex, Lath. 
Crex pratensis, Bechst., Cass., and authors generally. 
Length, about 10; wing, 54; tail, 2.15. 
Hab.—Europe; Greenland; Accidental on Atlantic coast of United 
States. (Baird.) 
Colonel Wedderburn shot the only specimen of this European bird 
ever obtained in Bermuda, on the 25th October, 1847, and sent a notice 
of its occurrence to “The Zoologist” in 1849. At that time it was prob- 
ably not known that the species is a straggler to the United States, but 
laterally several instances of its appearance there have been recorded, 
so that the fact of its being killed in Bermuda has lost much of the mys- 
tery which was originally connected with it. 
Sub-family FULICIN. 
Genus GALLINULA, Briss. 
135. Gallinula galeata, (Licht.) Bp. Florida Gallinule. 
Crea galeata, Licht. 
Gallinula galeata, Bp., Nutt., Maxim., Tsch., Gosse, Gundl., Bd., Newton, and 
most late authors. ji 
Gallinula chloropus, Bp., Aud., Gir. 
Gallinula chloropus, var. galeata, Hartl. & Finsch, Ridg. 
