OEDER PALUDICOL^. 101 



toba, and western Ontario south to California, Colorado, Nebraska, 

 Illinois, and Ohio; formerly in migration east to New England; now 

 rare east of the Mississippi, except in Florida, and rare as a breeder 

 in the southern half of its former breeding range; winters from Cali- 

 fornia, Texas, and Louisiana south to Mexico. 



Family ARAMIDiE. Couhlans. 



Genus ARAMUS Vieillot. 



Aramus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 58. Type, by monotypy, "Courliri, 

 Bu£f." = Ardea scolopacea Gmelin = Numenius vodferus Latham. 



Aramus vociferus (Latham). Limpkin. [207.] 



Numenius vociferus Latham, Suppl. Index Orn., 1801, Ixv. (Florida.) 



Range. — Florida, Greater Antilles, and both coasts of Central 

 America; casual north to South Carolina; accidental in Texas. 



SuBORDEK RALLI. Rails, Gallinules, Coots, etc. 



Family RALLID.^. Rails, Gallinules, and Coots. 



Subfamily RALLIN.S:. Rails. 



Genus RALLUS Linnaeus. 



Ralltis LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 153. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Ralhis aquaticus Linn^us (Gray, 1840). 



Rdllus §legans Audubon. King Rail. [208.] 



Rallus elegans Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio), III, 1834, pi. 203. (South- 

 eastern United States, or interior of South Carolina.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds from Nebraska, south- 

 ern Minnesota, Ontario, New York, and Connecticut south to Texas, 

 Florida, and Cuba; winters mainly in the southern part of its breeding 

 range; casual north to South Dakota and Maine. 



