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Manitoba. Thus their record in the West was quite uniform and regu- 

 lar. Further east they appeared at Saint Louis March 16, and on the 

 21st and 22d were reported from four stations in central Iowa. March 

 21 they arrived at Storm Lake, Iowa, and the last day of the month at 

 Heron Lake, Minn. The records east of the Mississippi were few and 

 irregular j between March 20 and March 21 they were seen from Griggs- 

 ville, 111., to Merritt's Landing, Wis. 



In the spring of 1885 all but three of the stations on the plains con- 

 tributed notes on the arrival of the Sandhill Crane, while from the region 

 east of the Mississippi river but four stations reported it. The more regu- 

 lar of these records are as follows : Eichmond, Kans., March 11 ; Lin- 

 wood, ^Nebr., March 11 ; Gririnell and Newton, Iowa, March 25 and 26. 

 From March 29 to April 1 it appeared at Des Moines, Laporte City, and 

 Emmetsburgh, Iowa; Unadilla, Xebr.; and Aledo, Tampico, and Henne- 

 pin, 111. April 1 it was seen at Elk .River, Minn. ; April 7 at Xew Cas- 

 sel, Wis. ; April 12 at Menoken, Dak. ; April 15 at Larimore, Dak., and 

 Oak Point, Manitoba. In the fall of 1885 the first came to Argusville, 

 Dak., October 2 ; Eichmond, Kans., October 3; and Bonham, Tex., Oc- 

 tober 5. The last were seen at Eichmond, Kans., November 3; Grin- 

 nell, Iowa, November 1; and Eayette, Mo., Xovember 20. 



208. Ralhis elegaus And. [5C9.] King Bail. 



Winters in the southern States, occasionally north even to southern 

 Illinois, and in summer passes up the Mississippi Yalley to Kansas and 

 Missouri regularly, and to Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin occasionally. 

 It is not common in Nebraska, and is still rarer in southeastern Dakota, 

 where Dr. Agersborg has found it to be a rare summer resident. As 

 in all other species of Eails, its migrations are performed at night, and 

 during the day it keeps so secluded in the thick sedges that, though, 

 not at all uncommon in much, of its range, it is rarely seen. In the 

 spring of 1881 it appeared at Saint Louis April 10 ; the only other record 

 came from one of the most northern points at which it has ever been 

 found : Hastings, Minn., May 9. 



In the spring of 1885 the King Eail arrived at Emporia, Kans., April 

 11, and at Aledo, 111., April 23. It reached Heron Lake, Minn., about 

 the middle of May, but the exact date was not recorded. In the fall 

 of 1885 it was first noticed at Fernwood, 111., August 29, and again 

 September 13 ; the last were seen there October 13. Xo more congenial 

 home for Eails can be found than the immense marshes in the vicinity 

 of this station. Mr. Lloyd states that one was seen in South Concho, 

 Tex., in the spring of 1886. 



211. Rallus longirostris crepitans (Graelin). [571.] Clapper Sail . 



An inhabitant of the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast, coming 

 north regularly to Long Island, N. Y. During the first week in June, 

 1886, Dr. A. K. Fisher found this form breeding commonly at Grand 

 Isle, on the coast of Louisiana, and secured an adult male and two 



