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Porzana Carolina
Sora So"ra, n. (Zo["o]l.) A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto. King sora, the Florida gallinule.
Porzana Carolina
Ortolan Or"to*lan, n. [F., fr. It. ortolano ortolan, gardener, fr. L. hortulanus gardener, fr. hortulus, dim. of hortus garden. So called because it frequents the hedges of gardens. See Yard an inclosure, and cf. Hortulan.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A European singing bird (Emberiza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also bunting. (b) In England, the wheatear (Saxicola [oe]nanthe). (c) In America, the sora, or Carolina rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora.
Porzana Carolina
Rail Rail, n. [F. r[^a]le, fr. r[^a]ler to have a rattling in the throat; of German origin, and akin to E. rattle. See Rattle, v.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallid[ae], especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds. Note: The common European water rail (Rallus aquaticus) is called also bilcock, skitty coot, and brook runner. The best known American species are the clapper rail, or salt-marsh hen (Rallus lonqirostris, var. crepitans); the king, or red-breasted, rail (R. elegans) (called also fresh-water marshhen); the lesser clapper, or Virginia, rail (R. Virginianus); and the Carolina, or sora, rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora. Land rail (Zo["o]l.), the corncrake.

Meaning of Porzana Carolina from wikipedia

- The sora, sora rail or Carolina crake (Porzana carolina) is a small waterbird of the rail family Rallidae, sometimes also referred to as the sora rail...
- porzana) is the type species. The genus Porzana was erected by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the spotted crake (Porzana...
- recorded in South Carolina. Clapper rail, Rallus crepitans King rail, Rallus elegans Virginia rail, Rallus limicola Sora, Porzana carolina Common gallinule...
- rail, Rallus limicola Corn crake, Crex crex (A) Sora, Porzana carolina Spotted crake, Porzana porzana (A) Common gallinule, Gallinula galeata American coot...
- recorded in North Carolina. Clapper rail, Rallus crepitans (RM) King rail, Rallus elegans Virginia rail, Rallus limicola Sora, Porzana carolina Common gallinule...
- Crex egregia (A) Sora (polluela sora), Porzana carolina (A) Spotted crake (polluela pintoja), Porzana porzana Lesser moorhen (gallineta chica), Gallinula...
- wood-rail, Aramides calopterus Yellow-breasted crake, Porzana flaviventer (V) Sora, Porzana carolina Common gallinule, Gallinula galeata Red-fronted coot...
- Crex crex (A) African crake, Crex egregia (A) Sora, Porzana carolina (A) Spotted crake, Porzana porzana Lesser moorhen, Gallinula angulata (A) Eurasian moorhen...
- Crex crex (near-threatened) Sora (maskerikse), Porzana carolina (A) Spotted crake (myrrikse), Porzana porzana Eurasian moorhen (sivhøne), Gallinula chloropus...
- melanops Yellow-breasted crake, Porzana flaviventer Dot-winged crake, Porzana spiloptera (vulnerable) Sora, Porzana carolina (V) Common gallinule, Gallinula...