Also 8 saurer, 8–9 soree. [prob. a native name.] The Carolina rail (Porzana carolina). Also attrib. with gallinule, rail.
α. 1705. R. Beverley, Virginia, II. vi. (1722), 135. Cranes, Curlews, Herons, Snipes, Woodcocks, Saurers, Ox-eyes, Plover, Larks.
1731. Phil. Trans., XXXVII. 175. The Soreè. This Bird is in Virginia as much in Request for the Delicacy of its Flesh, as the Ortulan in Europe.
1785. Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, III. I. 262. Soree Gallinule. Rallus Carolinus.
1824. Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., XII. I. 208. Soree Rail.
β. 1809. A. Wilson, in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876), I. 172. The Sora was in multitudes at Detroit. Ibid. (1812), Amer. Ornith., VI. 28. The Rail or Sora belongs to a genus of birds of which about thirty different species are enumerated by naturalists.
1839. Audubon, Ornith. Biog., V. 572. Sora Rail, Rallus Carolinus.
1872. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 273. Porzana, Carolina Rail. Common Rail. Sora. ‘Ortolan.’
