Yellow-breasted Rail

Yellow-breasted Rail [now Yellow Rail]
Ortygometra noveboracencis, Latham [now Coturnicops noveboracensis]
Octavo edition, plate 307

“In the neighbourhood of New Orleans, this species is found in all the deserted savannahs, covered with thick long grass, and pools of shallow water. There you hear its sharp and curious notes many times in the course of the day.”

John James Audubon, Birds of America (New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844), vol. 5, p. 152.

View bird in National Audubon Society Field Guide for North American Birds.