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213. Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana). 
Range.—Europe and central Asia, south in winter to India and Africa; occasional in Greenland. 
Names.—English names for the species are European spotted crake, spotted rail 
spotted water-hen, and water crake. French names are poule d’eau marouette 
(marouette means chamomile or dog-fennel; what application this has to the bird 
is unknown; poule d’eau means water-chicken), petit rile d’eau (little water rail) 
rale marouette. 
£14. Sora (Porzana carolina). (I'te. 34.) 
Range.—North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, southern Mackenzie (N. W. T.) 
central Keewatin (N. W. T.), and Gulf of St. Lawrence south to southern California, Arizona, Utah Col 
orado, Kansas, Illinois, and New Jersey; winters from northern California, Iinois, and South Caro'ina 
penne ne Wiest Indies and Central America to Venezuela and Peru; accidental in Bermuda, Greenland 
an nglan : 
FIG. 34.—Sora. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Rail. 
In local use.—Chicken-bill, chicken-billed rail (Mass.); coot (N. C., S. C., GRO) 
English rail, little rail (Long Id., N. Y.); meadow-chick, meadow-chicken (Conn.); 
mud-hen (N. Y., Ill.); ortolan (D. C., Md., La.); rail-bird (N. Y., N. J., Pa.); rale 
musque (musk rail), rice-field rail, rice rail (La.); roi des cailles (king of quail) (Que.); 
sora, soree (old form sorus, Va., N. C., introduced to some extent elsewhere, as In 
N. Y., Tex., Man., Wash., and Calif.; also as sora rail in Mass. and Conn.); wachtel- 
k6nig (quail king) (Mo.). 
Geographic inder.—Calif., sora; Conn., meadow-chick, meadow-chicken, sora rail; 
D. C., ortolan; Ga., coot; Iil., mud-hen; La., ortolan, rale musque, ricefield rail; 
rice rail; Man., sora; Md., ortolan; Mass., chickenbill, chicken-billed rail, sora rail; 
Mo., wachtel-kénig; NV. J., rail-bird; N. Y., English rail, little rail, mud-hen, rail- 
bird, sora; NW. C., coot, sora, soree; Pa., rail-bird; Que., roi des cailles; S. C., coot; 
Tex., sora; Va., sora, soree; Wash., sora. 
BOOK NAMES. 
American rail, Carolina crake, Carolina crake-gallinule, Carolina rail, common 
rail, crake, little American water-hen, meadow-hen, rale commun (common rail), 
rale de la Caroline, rale de genét ({urze rail), short-billed rail, soree gallinule. 
