COMCENTS VII 



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Appetjdix 1 — Methods of Capturing for Banding 103 



Types of capturing devices 103 



Long-handled dip or clap net 103 



All-purpose or cloverleaf trap 103 



Tending traps 105 



Age for banding King Rail chicks 106 



Need for banding data 106 



Appendix 2. — Local Names 107 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Frontispiece, King Rail near Jacksonville, Fla ii 



Figure 



1. A King Rail walking 3 



2. Mated King Rail and Clapper Rail collected in Delaware 8 



3. Approximate breeding range and principal distribution of the 



King Rail in North America 10 



4. Louisiana coastal marshes 17 



5. Prairie marsh, Grand Chenier, La 18 



6. Southern bulrush, fall panicum, and alligatorweed in the 



Prairie Marsh type 21 



7. King Rail wading through ricefield 22 



8. Arkansas Grand Prairie near Stuttgart 23 



9. Nest of King Rail in wet rice stubble 24 



10. Habitat of King Rail, Indian River County, Fla 26 



11. King Rail habitat on Seminole Indian Reservation, Glades 



County, Fla 27 



12. Floodgate and ricefield canal near Savannah, Ga 28 



13. South Carolina Low Country: ricefield nesting habitat along 



Savannah River, Jasper County 30 



14. Alligatorweed in canal at Savannah National Wildlife Refuge.- 31 



15. Big cordgrass habitat, Nanticoke River marsh, Md 33 



16. Winter abode of King Rail, Rappahannock River near Tappa- 



hannock, Va 34 



17. Switchgrass habitat of King Rail, Elliott Island, Md 36 



18. Nest and eggs of King Rail in Nanticoke River marsh, Vienna, 



Md 37 



19. Nest and 9 eggs of King Rail in brackish marsh. Long Marsh 



Island, Eastern Bay (of Chesapeake Bay), Md 38 



20. Taylor's Gut at low tide, Kent County, Del 39 



21. Displays of the King Rail 52 



22. Canopy on King Rail nest in roadside ditch, Arkansas Grand 



Prairie 58 



23. King Rail nest in roadside ditch near Stuttgart, Ark 58 



24. King Rail incubating in nest of cattails in roadside ditch, 



Arkansas Grand Prairie 59 



25. King Rail incubating in open nest along roadside ditch, 



Mamou, La 59 



26. Distraction display of King Rail near nest 64 



27. Downy young King Rail, 31 days old, with juvenal plumage 



beginning to develop 69 



28. Ventral view of 31-day-old King Rail showing development of 



white juvenal plumage in sternal and abdominal regions and 



crural tract 70 



