sora
(ˈsɔərə)
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. 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.’ |