ORDER PALUDICOL^. 105 



[Genus CREX Bechstein. 



Crex Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl., II, 1803, 336. Type, by 

 monotypy, Crex pratensis Bechstein = BaUus crex Linn^tis. 



Crex crex (Linn^eus). Com Crake. [217.] 



Rallus crex Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 153. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Europe and northern Asia; casual in Greenland, Ber- 

 muda, and eastern North America from Nova Scotia to New Jersey .] 



Subfamily GALLINXTLINjE. Gallinules. 

 Genus IONORNIS Reichenbach. 



lonornis Reichenbach, Syst. Avium, 1852. xxi. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Fvlica mmrtinicensis Jacquin = Fulica martinica IiINN.3etjs. 



Ion6mis martinicus (Linn^us). Purple Gallinule. [218.] 



Fvlica martinica Linn.s;us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, 259. (Martinique, 

 West Indies.) 



Range. — Tropical and subtropical America. Breeds from Texas, 

 Tennessee, and South Carolina south through Mexico and the West 

 Indies to Ecuador and Paraguay; winters from Texas, Louisiana, 

 and Florida southward; irregularly north in summer to Arizona, 

 Nebraska, Wisconsin, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Bruns- 

 wick; accidental in England and Bermuda. 



Genus GALLINULA Beisson. 



GalKnula Brisson, Om., VI, 1760, 2. Type, by tautonymy [GaUinvla] 

 gallimUa Bkisson = Fulica chloropus LiNNiEus. 



Gallinula gale&ta (Lic&tenstein). Florida Gallinule. [219.] 



Crex galeata Lichtenstein, Verz. Saug. u. Vogel Mus. Berlin, 1818, 36. 

 (Brazil.) 



Range. — Tropical and temperate America. Breeds from central 

 California, Arizona, Nebraska, Minnesota, Ontario, New York, and 



