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Rallus longirdstris Boddaert. 

 Range. — Northern South America, West Indies, and coast of Texas. 



a. [Ballus longirostris longirostris. Extralimital.] 



b. Rallus longirostris caribiBus RiDGW AY. Caribbean Clapper Rail. [211.2.] 



Rallus longirostris var. caribceus Ridgway, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, V, 

 July, 1880, 140. (West Indies.) 



Range. — Texas (Corpus Christi and Galveston) and the West Indies. 



Rallus virgini4nus Linn^us. Virginia Rail. [212.] 



Rallus virginianus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, 263. (Virginia.) 



Range. — North America. Breeds from British Columbia, south- 

 ern Saskatchewan, southern Keewatin, Ontario, southern Quebec, 

 and New Brunswick south to southern Cahfornia, Utah, Kansas, 

 Missouri, Illinois, New Jersey, and eastern North Carolina, and in 

 Toluca Valley, Mexico; winters from Oregon, Utah, and Colorado 

 to Lower California and Guatemala, also in the lower Mississippi 

 States, and from North Carolina (casually Massachusetts) to Florida; 

 occurs casually north to northern Quebec and Newfoundland. 



Genus PORZANA Vieillot. 



Porzana Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 61. Type, by monotypy, "Marouette, 

 Buff." = Rallus porzana Linn^tjs. 



[Porz4na porz&na (Linn.<eus). Spotted Ciake. [213.] 



Roans porzana Linn^tts, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 262. (Europe.) 



RANGE.^Northern parts of the Old World; occasional in Green- 

 land.] 



Porzana Carolina (LiNN.s;ns). Sora. [214.] 



Rallus carolinus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 153. (Hudson 

 Bay.) 



