. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 211. Clapper Rail. Rallus crepitanscrepitans. Range.—Salt marshes of the Atlantic coastfrom southern New Rngland southward. A grayish colored Rail, about the size of, andwith the markings similar to tliose of the KingRail. It is as exclusively a salt water species asthe King Rail is a fresh water one. Witli thepossible exception of the Carolina or Sora Rail,this is the most abundant of all the Rails, hun-. Buff. dreds nesting in a single marsh
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 211. Clapper Rail. Rallus crepitanscrepitans. Range.—Salt marshes of the Atlantic coastfrom southern New Rngland southward. A grayish colored Rail, about the size of, andwith the markings similar to tliose of the KingRail. It is as exclusively a salt water species asthe King Rail is a fresh water one. Witli thepossible exception of the Carolina or Sora Rail,this is the most abundant of all the Rails, hun-. Buff. dreds nesting in a single marsh on the SouthAtlantic coast. Their nests are built of rushesand weeds, and are placed on the ground either inthe tall grass bordering the marshes or attacliedto the rushes in the midst of the marsh. Thenesting season commences during April and con-tinues through May. They lay from six to fourteen eggs, of a buff color spotted irregularly withbrown and gray. Size x Ralhis crep- 211a. LonsiANA Clapper habitation of this subspecies is limited tothe coast of Louisiana. It is very similar to the proceeding but is said to bebrighter in plumage. King RfLi],Clapper Rail.
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