NORTH AMERICAN RAILS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



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[MEXICAN YELLOW RAIL. Porzana gold muni Nelson. 



The Mexican yellow rail is known only from the type specimen taken by Goldman, 

 July 11, 1904, at Lerma, Mexico.] 



[YELLOW-BELLIED RAIL. Porzana flaviventris (Boddaert). 



The distribution of the yellow-bellied rail is rather peculiar. It is known in South 

 America from Guiana to southern Brazil, but though not yet recorded from Central 

 America nor from the rest of the Greater Antilles, it is not infrequent in Jamaica 

 and Cuba.] 



[RUFOUS RAIL. Porzana rubra Sclater and Salvin. 



Recorded many years ago from British Honduras, the lower parts of Guatemala 

 south to Duenas, and from Cozumel Island, Yucatan, the known range of the rufous 



Fig. 13.— Yellow rail ( Coturnicops noveboracensis). 



rail was extended in February, 1901, to Tlacotalpam, Vera Cruz (Smith), and on April 

 25. 1904, by Sheldon and Piper, to Isla de los Pajaros, near Tampico, Vera Cruz.] 



YELLOW RAIL. Coturnicops noveboracensis (.Gmelin). 



Range. — North America from central Canada to the Gulf coast. 



Breeding range. — There seem to be only a few sets of eggs of the 

 yellow rail in museums or collections. Hence the breeding range of 

 the species has to be inferred from its occurrence in summer. At 



