NORTH AMERICAN RAILS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



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breeding grounds. It was also found in June at Tizimin in northern 

 Yucatan (Sharpe), and may have been breeding. 



Winter range. — The Virginia rail winters for the most part in the 

 southern United States, occurring on the Gulf coast from Fort Myers, 

 Fla. (Scott), to Corpus Christi, Tex. (Sennett), and south to Duenas, 

 Guatemala — January, 1861 — (Salvin), and San Jose del Cabo, Lower 

 California (Brewster). It was found once — January, 1854 — in the 

 market of Habana, Cuba (Gundlach), and once — November 6, 1851 — 



Fig. 10. — Virginia rail (Rallus virginianus). 



in the Bermudas (Hurdis). The species winters regularly and com- 

 monly on the coast of South Carolina (Wayne), less commonly or 

 rarely north to Pea Island, N. C. (Bishop). It has been found casu- 

 ally in winter near Washington, D. C, December 28, 1912 (Adams); 

 at Easton, Md., Jaunary 20, 1891 (Kirkwood); Cape May, N. J., 

 December 30, 1895 (Stone); Trenton, N. J., January, 1869 (Abbott); 

 Worcester, Mass., January 1, 1891 (Reed); and Barnstable, Mass., 

 December 31, 1894 (Hoffmann). In the Mississippi Valley it remains 

 as far north during the winter as Arkansas County, Ark. (Hollister), 



