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Lake; Chemawawin; Winnipeg; Winnipegosis ; Eeabwin) ; southern 

 Saskatchewan (Indian Head); Montana (Columbia Falls; Great 

 Falls; Fort Keogh) ; and southern British Columbia (Beaver Creek; 

 Goldstream; Chilliwack; and probably 158-mile House and Okana- 

 gan) ; south to North Carolina (Gull Shoal) ; Ohio (Lewiston Kes- 

 ervoir) ; Indiana (Bluffton) ; Kentucky (Henderson) ; Illinois (Chi- 

 cago; Mount Carmel; Vandalia) ; Missouri (rarely — Clark County) ; 

 Iowa (Newton; Boone); Nebraska (London; Lincoln; Valentine); 

 Colorado (Clear Creek; Fountain; San Luis Lakes); New Mexico 

 (probably, Lake Burford) ; Mexico (Valley of Mexico; Lerma; pos- 

 sibly Santa Cruz; Sonora; Tizimin, Yucatan); Nevada (Carson 

 City) ; California (throughout south to Escondido) ; and Lower 

 California (Pacific slope of the northwestern section of the peninsula, 

 San Eamon, and probably El Rosario). 



Winters from North Carolina (Pea Island) ; southern Illinois 

 (Mount Carmel) ; Arkansas (Stuttgart) ; Colorado (Clear Creek; 

 Barr) ; Utah (Provo; St. George ?) ; and southern British Columbia 

 (Chilliwack; Okanagan) ; south to Florida (uncommon in northern 

 half of State; Coronado Beach; Orlando; Cedar Keys; Lukens; 

 St. Marks; Pensacola; Daytona Beach; Leon County; Goose Creek; 

 Wakulla County; Tarpon Springs; Sanibel Island; Titusville; Fort 

 Myers) ; Bermuda (rarely) ; the Gulf States; Mexico (Jalapa; Vera- 

 cruz ; Lerma, Valley of Mexico ; Sinaloa, Mazatlan) ; Lower California 

 (San Quentin; Cape district; Colorado delta) ; and to Guatemala 

 (Antigua; Dueiias; Ciudad Vieja — ^taken only in September and 

 October) . 



Casual in summer in Newfoundland (Reeks) and Labrador (Hamil- 

 ton Inlet ?) ; in winter north to Massachusetts (Barnstable ; Cape Cod ; 

 Worcester) ; New York (Long Island) ; New Jersey (near Trenton) ; 

 Maryland (Easton) ; Virginia (Virginia Beach) ; and Montana 

 (Helena). 



Accidental in Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and Bermuda. 



Tyfe locality. — fitats Unis= Pennsylvania. 



[Rallus] virginiamis (not of Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 263: Virginia; 

 based on Catesby, i, 70; Brisson, v, 175) Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 11, 1789, 

 716 (Pennsylvania).— Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1847, 40 (Jamaica; 

 Mexico; United States). — Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba). — 

 GuNDLACH, Eep. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 1, 1865-66, 861 (Cuba). — Laweence, Ann. 

 Lye. Nat. Hist, New York, vlii, 1866, 295 (vicinity New York City). — Coties, 

 Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 273. — Sclateb and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 

 1873, 139.— CoRT, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 29 

 (Cuba).— Shakpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 94. 



Rallus virginianus Tueton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 432.— Wilson, Amer. Orn., vii, 1813, 

 109, pL 62, fig. 1 (not of vol. vi, 1812, pi. 48, fig. 1, which = sora rail).— 

 BoNAPABTE, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ii, 1827, 334 ; Geogr. and Comp. 

 List, 1838, 53.— NtFTTAii, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Water Birds, 

 1834, 205.— Audubon, Orn. Blogr., ill, 1935, 41, pi. 205; v, 1839, 573; Synopsis, 



