14 BULLETIN 128, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



KING RAIL. Rallus elegans Audubon. 



Range. — Eastern United. States and Cuba 



Breeding range. — The king rail is the large fresh-water rail of 

 eastern United States, in contrast with the clapper rail, which is 

 confined to salt marshes. The king rail breeds in Florida and north 

 along the Atlantic coast to Saybrook, Conn. (Clark). While for the 

 most part keeping in the marshes near the coast, it has been known 

 to nest as far inland as Raleigh, N. C. (Brimley), and Columbia, S. C. 

 (Taylor). In the Mississippi Valley and the region of the Great 



Fig. 4. — Limpkin (Aramus vociferus). 



Lakes, it nests north to Ithaca, N. Y. (Wright and Allen), Buffalo, 

 N. Y. (Reinecke), Pelee Island, Ohio (Jones), St. Clair Flats, Ont. 

 (Swales), Ann Arbor, Mich. (Covert), Madison, Wis. (Slonaker), and 

 Faribault, Minn. (Bullis). The breeding range extends west to 

 Heron Lake, Minn. (Miller), Omaha, Nebr. (Bruner, Wolcott, and 

 Swenk), Manhattan, Kans. (Lantz), and Wichita, Kans. (Matthews). 

 The southern limit of normal breeding extends south to Wooster, 

 Ohio (Oberholser), Circleville, Ohio (Bales), Greencastle, Ind. (Earle), 



