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Manitoba. Thus their record in the West was quite uniform and regu- 
lar. Further east they appeared at Saint Louis March 16, and on the 
2Qist and 22d were reported from four stations in central Iowa. March 
24 they arrived at Storm Lake, Iowa, and the last day of the month at 
Heron Lake, Minn. The records east of the Mississippi were few and 
irregular; between March 20 and March 24 they were seen from Griggs- 
ville, Ill, to Merritt’s Landing, Wis. 
In the spring of 1885 all but three of the stations on the plains con- 
tributed notes on the arrival of the Sandhill Crane, while from the region 
east of the Mississippi river but four stations.reported it. The more regu- 
lar of these records are as follows: Richmond, Kans., March 11; Lin- 
wood, Nebr., March 14; Grinnell and Newton, Iowa, March 25 and 26. 
From March 29 to April 1 it appeared at Des Moines, Laporte City, and 
Emmetsburgh, Iowa; Unadilla, Nebr.; and Aledo, Tampico, and Henne- 
pin, Ill. April 4 it was seen at Elk River, Minn.; April 7 at New Cas- 
sel, Wis.; April 12 at Menoken, Dak.; April 15 at Larimore, Dak., and 
Oak Point, Manitoba. In the fall of 1885 the first came to Argusville, 
Dak., October 2; Richmond, Kans., October 3; and Bonham, Tex., Oc- 
tober 5. The last were seen at Richmond, Kans., November 3; Grin- 
nell, Iowa, November 4; and Fayette, Mo., November 20. 
208. Rallus elegans Aud. [569.] King Rail. 
Winters in the southern States, occasionally north even to southern 
Illinois, and in summer passes up the Mississippi Valley to Kansas and 
Missouri regularly, and to Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin occasionally. 
It is not common in Nebraska, and is still rarer in southeastern Dakota, 
where Dr. Agersborg has found it to be a rare summer resident. As 
in all other species of Rails, its migrations are performed at night, and 
during the day it keeps so secluded in the thick sedges that, though 
not at all uncommon in much of its range, it is rarely seen. In the 
spring of 1884 it appeared at Saint Louis April 10; the only other record 
came from one of the most northern points at which it has ever been 
found: Hastings, Minn., May 9. 
In the spring of 1885 the-King Rail arrived at Emporia, Kans., April 
14, and at Aledo, Ill., April 23. It reached Heron Lake, Minn., about 
the middle of May, but the exact date was not recorded. In the fall 
of 1885 it was first noticed at Fernwood, Ill., August 29, and again 
September 13; the last were seen there October 13. No more congenial 
home for Rails can be found than the immense marshes in the vicinity 
of this station. Mr. Lloyd states that one was seen in South Concho, 
Tex., in the spring of 1886. 
211. Rallus longirostris crepitans (Gmelin). [571.] Clapper Rail. 
An inhabitant of the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast, coming 
north regularly to Long Island, N. Y. During the first week in June, 
1886, Dr. A. K. Fisher found this form breeding commonly at Grand 
Isle. on the coast of Louisiana, and secured an adult male and two 
