NORTH AMERICAN RAILS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



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early July (Scott) ; and eggs, March 31, 1897, near the mouth of the 

 Anclote Kiver (Bishop). 



WAYNE CLAPPER RAIL. Rallus crepitans waynei Brewster. 



The Wayne clapper rail is the common rail of the salt-water 

 marshes on the coast of South Carolina and Georgia and breeds south 



BREEDING 

 O OCCURRENCE IN SUMMER 



Fig. 9. — Clapper rail {Rallus crepitans). Subspecies: 1, crepitans; 2, waynei; 3, scotti; i, saturatus; 5, coryi. 



to Matanzas Inlet, Fla. (eggs in the U. S. National Museum), and 

 north to Pea Island, N. C. (Bishop) . It ranges in winter a short dis- 

 tance south of the breeding grounds to Dummits Creek, Fla. (Brew- 

 ster) , while a few remain through this season at the northern limit of 

 the range on the coast of North Carolina (Bishop) . 



Eggs have been taken near Matanzas Inlet, Fla., May 28, 1895 

 (specimens in U. S. National Museum) ; Mcintosh, Ga., March 29, 



