104 CHECK-LIST OF NOKTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, 

 southern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, and Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 south to southern California, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, and 

 New Jersey; winters from northern California, Illinois, and South 

 Carolina through the West Indies and Central America to Venezuela 

 and Peru; accidental in Bermuda, Greenland, and England. 



Genus OOTURNIOOPS Bonaparte. 



Coturnicops Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus, XLIII, 1856, 599. Type, 

 by monotypy, Fvlica noveboracensis Gmblin. ^ 



CotHmicops noveboracSnsis (Gmelin). Yellow Rail. [215.] 



Fulica noveboracensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 701. (New York.) 



Range. — Chiefly eastern North America. Breeds from southern 

 Mackenzie, central Keewatin, and southern Ungava south to Minne- 

 sota and Maine; winters in the Gulf States, rarely in California, 

 Illinois, and North Carolina; casual in Nevada, Utah, and Bermuda. 



Genus CRECISCUS Cabanis. 



Creciscus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 428. Type, by monotypy, 

 Rallus jamaicensis Gmelin. 



Creciscus jamaicSnsis (Gmelin). Black Rail. [216.] 



Rallus jamaicensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 718. (Jamaica.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds from southern On- 

 tario and Massachusetts south to Kansas, Illinois, and South Caro- 

 lina; winters from Texas east through the Gulf States and south to 

 Jamaica and Guatemala; casual in Bermuda. 



Creciscus cotumiculus (Ridgway). Farallon Rail. [216.1.] 



PoTzana jamaicensis var. cotumicidus Ridgway, Amer. Nat., VIII, Feb., 

 1874, 111. (Farallon Islands, California.) 



Range. — Pacific coast of United States. Breeds in coast marshes 

 of California; casual in Washington, Oregon, and Lower California. 



