FAMILY ItALLID.*:. — - RAILS, 



99 



Group 3. Wing, 4.75 to 6.50 inches long. 



Feathers on back, dark olive, edged with gray ; cheeks and ear coverts, pale cinna. 

 mon rufous, sometimes i)l;ickish in young birds; bill, over 1.25 inches loug. Usuully louiid 

 near fresh water. FmUhs rJiyanf:. King Rail. 



See No. 165. 



Feathers on the back, black, edged with grayish olive ; cheeks and ear coverts, gray. 

 I'refers salt-water marshes. Rallus louijirostrU crepitaiii: fmiJ raiieties. Clapper Rail. 



See No. 166. 



* For directiuus fur measurement, sou page i). 



