. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 126 XESTN AM) KGHS OF. 214. SoRA Rails. (From Bailey.) The little slate-colored Carolina Rail breeds from the Middle States northward. In the reedy swamps of the Atlantic States great numbers of this Rail are killed every year. It is a highly esteemed game bird, and is usually abundant during the migrations. More common in the Eastern Province of the United States, breeding chiefly northward. Mr. Shields states that the Sora Rail is quite common in the swamps about Los Angeles, Cala., where he obta
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 126 XESTN AM) KGHS OF. 214. SoRA Rails. (From Bailey.) The little slate-colored Carolina Rail breeds from the Middle States northward. In the reedy swamps of the Atlantic States great numbers of this Rail are killed every year. It is a highly esteemed game bird, and is usually abundant during the migrations. More common in the Eastern Province of the United States, breeding chiefly northward. Mr. Shields states that the Sora Rail is quite common in the swamps about Los Angeles, Cala., where he obtained six sets of its eggs in the season of 1886; the largest set contained fourteen and smallest seven eggs. In Ohio the Carolina Crake, Common Rail, Sora or Ortolan, as it is variously called, is a com- mon summer resident, breeding in the extensive swamps and wet meadows through- out the State. The Carolina Rails are equally abundant on both salt and fresh water marshes,.but the latter places are preferable to them as breeding grounds. The nest is a rude affair made of grass and weeds, placed on the ground in a tussock of grass in a boggy tract of land, where there is a growth of briers, etc. The eggs of Sora are ovoidal in shape, tapering gradually to the smaller end but not sharply pointed. They have a ground color of dark cream or drab, darker than those of the Virginia Rail; the spots are redaish-brown with purple shell spots scattered over the surface, but more numerous at the large end. Twenty eggs in my collection have an average size of { I I i r b g S] 01 ei th A 215. YELLOW BAIL. PorcYTHfl uorehoracriiftifi (Gmel.) Geog. Dist.—Eastern North America from Nova Scotia and Hudson Bay west to Utah and Nevada. The small Yellow Crake appears to be quite rare everywhere in Eastern North America or wherever found. It is known to breed in Northern Illinois, where its eggs have been taken. Dr. Howard Jones has frequently taken it in the vicinity of Circle- ville, O
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