[f. LIMP v.2 + -KIN; the bird’s movements resemble those of a limping man.] A name for the genus Aramus of birds, holding a place midway between the Cranes and the Rails; called also COURLAN. (See quot.)
1885. Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888), IV. 127. The family of the limpkins or courlans is a very small one, consisting only of one genus of two species…. Aramus pictus is restricted to Central America, the West Indies, and southern Florida. A. scolopaceus inhabits eastern South America.
