44 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
215. Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis). 
Range.—Chiefly eastern North America. Breeds from southern Mackenzie (N.W.T.), central Keewatin 
(N.W. T.), and southern Ungava (Que.) south to Minnesota and Maine; wintersin the Gulf States, rarely 
in California, [Mlinois, and North Carolina; casualin Nevada, Utah, and Bermuda. ; 
Vernacular names.—Clicker (Man.); corncob, rice-field rail (La.); water-sparrow 
(Man.); yellow rail (Me., Mass., Wis., Man.). 
Book names.—Crake, Hudsonian quail, little yellow rail, New York rail, rale jaune 
(yellow rail), spirit rail, upland rail, yellow-breasted crake-gallinule, yellow-breasted 
gallinule, yellow-breasted rail, yellow crake. 
216. Black Rail (Creciscus jamaicensis). 
Range.—Two subspecies of black rail occur in the United States; their ranges are as follows: 
Eastern Black Rail (Creciscus jamaicensis jamaicensis.)—Eastern North America. Breeds from 
southern Ontario and Massachusetts south to Kansas, Illinois, and South Carolina; winters from Texas 
east through the Gulf States and south to Jamaica and Guatemala; casualin Bermuda. 
Farallon Rail (Creciscus jamaicensis coturniculus.)—Chiefly Pacific coast of United States. Breeds 
in coast marshes of California; casual in Washington, Oregon, and Lower California. 
Names.—The following book names have been applied to the species: Least water- 
rail, little black crake, little black rail, little rail, rale noir (black rail). The Farallon 
rail has been called also California black rail and mouse rail, the latter name said to 
be in local use in California. — 
217. Corn Crake (Crex crez). 
Range.—Europe and Asia; casualin New South Wales, Greenland, Bermuda, and eastern North America 
from Nova Scotia to New Jersey. 
Names.—No vernacular names for this species are current in the United States. 
Some English names are corn crake or creak, daker-hen, land-drake, and land rail. 
French names include poule d’eau de genét (furze water-hen); rale de genét (furze 
rail), rale de blé (corn rail), and rale de terre (land rail). American book names are 
Eurepean corn crake and European land rail. - 
Subfamily GALLINULINAE: Gallinules. 
218. Purple Gallinule (Jonornis martinicus). 
Range.—Tronical 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 Brunswick; accidentalin England and Bermuda. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—None. 
In local use.—Blue-Peter (Mo., La.); blue rail (La.); English rail (Tenn.); mammy- 
coot (S. C.); marsh-guinea (La.); marsh-hen (S. C., Ala.); moonshine (S. C.); pond- 
fowl (Ga., Fla.); pond-guinea (Fla.); rale bleue (blue rail) (La.); water-hen (Tex.). 
Geographic index.—Ala., marsh-hen; Fla., pond-fowl, pond-guinea; Ga., pond- 
fowl; La., blue-Peter, blue rail, marsh-euinea, rale bleue; Mo., blue-Peter; S. C., 
mammy-coot,. marsh-hen, moonshine; Tenn., English rail; Tex., water-hen. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Blue coot, blue mud-hen, gallinule pourpre (purple gallinule), Martinico gallinule 
(i. e., of Martinique), petite poule-sultane (little sultana fowl), sultana. 
219. Florida Gallinule (Gallinula chloropus cachinnans?°). (Fie. 35.) 
Range.—Tropical and temperate America. Breeds from central California, Arizona, Nebraska, Min- 
nesota, Ontario, New York, and Vermont south to the West Indies and Mexico and in the Galapagos and 
Bermuda; winters from southern California, Arizona, Texas, and Georgia southward to Costa Rica; casual 
in Colorado, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Maine. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—None.. 
In local use.—Bald coot (S. C.); bershon rail (Calif.); blue rail (N. J., Pa., Va.); 
chicken-foot (Mich.); chicken-foot coot (Ont.); gallinoo (S. C.); gray pond-hen 
(Mass.); king ortolan (Md., D. C.); king rail (Conn., Md., Fla.); king sora (Va.); 
20 Gallinula galeata. 
