. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. /^ EALLID^, RAILS, ETC.âGEN. 240, 241. 273 American species (Sclater and Salvin) only 7 occur in this country, one of wliicli is merely a straggler. There are some 25 Old World species. 240. Genus RALLUS Linnaeus. â Clapper Rail. Salt-ioater Marsh-hen. Mud-lien. Al)ove, variegated with dark olive-brown and pale olive-ash, the latter edging the
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. /^ EALLID^, RAILS, ETC.âGEN. 240, 241. 273 American species (Sclater and Salvin) only 7 occur in this country, one of wliicli is merely a straggler. There are some 25 Old World species. 240. Genus RALLUS Linnaeus. â Clapper Rail. Salt-ioater Marsh-hen. Mud-lien. Al)ove, variegated with dark olive-brown and pale olive-ash, the latter edging the feathers; below, pale dull ochrey-brown, whitening on the throat, frequently ashy-shaded on the breast; flanks, axillars and lining of wings, fuscous- gray, with sharp white bars; quills and tail plain dark- brown ; eyelids and short superciliary line whitish ; young birds are mostly soiled whitish be- low; when just from the ez^, en- °°' Fig. 178. Clapper Rail. tirely sooty black. 14-16 long; wing 5-6 ; tail 2-2J ; bill 2-2J ; tarsus l|-2 ; middle toe and claw 2-2J-; 9 smaller than the $. Salt marshes of Atlantic States, extremely abundant southerly; N. regularly to middle districts, sometimes to Massachusetts; Great Salt Lake {Allen). Eggs 6 to 10, 1| by 1^, whitish, creamy or buff, variously speckled and blotched with reddish- brown, with a few obscure lavender marks. R. crepitans Wils., vii, p. 112 ; NuTT., ii, 201; Aud., v, 165, pi. 310; Cass, in Bd., 747. longieosteis. X~i U L King Rail. Fresh-ivater Marsh-hen. With a general resemblance to the last species, but much more brightly colored; above, brownish-black, variegated with olive-brown, becoming rich chestnut on the wing coverts; under parts rich rufous or cinnamon-brown, usually paler on the middle of the bellj', and whitening on the throat; flanks and axillars blackish, white- barred. Eather larger than the last. U. S., chiefly in fresh-water marshes. Wils., vii, pi. 62, f. 2; Atjd., v, 160, pi. 309 ; Cass.
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