. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . , Jamaica, and coast of southern Texas(Corpus Christi and Galveston). Nest. — A platform-like structure of dried grasses, sedges, etc., in tuftsof grass or sedges, in marshes or ponds. Eggs : 6 to 15, white, buffy white,or brownish buff, sparingly spotted with rusty brown and purplish gray. 212. Rallus virginianus Linn. Virginia Rail. Adults. — Upper parts olive brown, streakedwith black; wing with a large chest-nut patch ; sides of head slaty gray,/ ^^^(^ lore
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . , Jamaica, and coast of southern Texas(Corpus Christi and Galveston). Nest. — A platform-like structure of dried grasses, sedges, etc., in tuftsof grass or sedges, in marshes or ponds. Eggs : 6 to 15, white, buffy white,or brownish buff, sparingly spotted with rusty brown and purplish gray. 212. Rallus virginianus Linn. Virginia Rail. Adults. — Upper parts olive brown, streakedwith black; wing with a large chest-nut patch ; sides of head slaty gray,/ ^^^(^ lores blackish, and chin white; throat and breast cinnamon brown ; flanksblack, barred with white. Young:plumage much mottled with black, ^^j^ but chestnut wing patch always pre- *^ 6sent. Length: , wing Fig. , bill , tarsus ,. Q Distribution. — Temperate North America, ^* * from Hudson Bay and British Columbia south 1 Rallus levipes Bangs. Like obsoletus, but smaller, bill more slender, and — Southern California. Bull. N. Eng. Zool. Club, i. 1899,
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