Virginia Rail at the Smithsonian Institution

Jim Felley (IRMSS668@SIVM.SI.EDU)
Mon, 14 Sep 98 13:21:15 EDT 

The Virginia Rail is still here in the area of the Enid Haupt Garden
and the National Museum of African Art.  I saw it this morning and
a couple of mornings last week.  It is lurking in very rail-like
fashion among the yews that line the Independence Ave. sidewalk on
the south side of the NMAfA.  Patience is needed to see it!
  It still seems healthy, enjoying the garden grounds and museum
complex created during the administration of S. Dillon Ripley,
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.  Ripley is of course
a renowned ornithologist, who wrote (among other works) "Rails
of the world".

Author:         Ripley, Sidney Dillon, 1913-

Title:          Rails of the world : a monograph of the family Rallidae / by
                  S. Dillon Ripley ; with forty-one paintings by J. Fenwick
                  Lansdowne ; and a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L.
                  Olson.

Edition:        [1st ed.]

Imprint:        Boston : D. R. Godine, c1977.

(there is also a portfolio edition from Smithsonian Press, c1984).


                          Jim

                          Jim Felley
                          Smithsonian Institution
                          irmss668@sivm.si.edu