. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 123 domestic fowl, while in color and markings they are similar to those of the Sandhill Crane—varying from almost pure white to creamy, buff, and grayiSh-white. The eggs are variously spotted, daubed and stained with brown and gray. A set of six eggs containing the largest specimens in the series, exhibit the following dimensions: , , , , , ; the set showing the small- est sizes are given as follows: , , , ,
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 123 domestic fowl, while in color and markings they are similar to those of the Sandhill Crane—varying from almost pure white to creamy, buff, and grayiSh-white. The eggs are variously spotted, daubed and stained with brown and gray. A set of six eggs containing the largest specimens in the series, exhibit the following dimensions: , , , , , ; the set showing the small- est sizes are given as follows: , , , , * 208. KING RAIL. Rallus eleffans Aud. Geog. Dist.—Fresh-water marshes of Eastern United States from the Middle States, Northern Illinois, Wisconsin and Kansas southward. Casually north to Massachusetts and Maine, and Ontario. The King Rail, Fresh-water Marsh Hen, or Red-breasted Rail, is distributed in summer from New York southward, breeding throughout the inland marshes. It is a summer resident in Ohio. I collected eggs of this species in a marsh a few miles from Columbus in May, 1887. It is frequently confounded with the Clapper Rail; the latter, however, is confined to the vicinity of salt water, and is a bird of duller. 208. King Rail. (After Audubon.) plumage. The nest of this Rail is placed on the ground in a marsh, often fastened in a tussock of grass. It is composed of grass and weeds. The eggs vary from a dull white to cream or pale buff, sparsely dotted and spotted with reddish-brown and lilac; six to twelve in number; size from to long by to broad, averaging by 209. BELDING'S RAIX. Rallus heldinffi Ridgw. Geog. Dist.—Lower Cali- fornia (Espiritus Santo Island and vicinity of La Paz). Under the ruling of the A. 0. U. Code to admit the islands pertaining to Lower California, this species comes within the North American avifauna. It is very much like R. elegans, but is darker and richer colored throughout, the white bars of the
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