50 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT, HIST. SURVEY. [BuU. 



W.) ; May 1-5, 1908, May 17, 1909, May 16, 1910, Portland 

 (J. H. S.). 



Summer record. Aug. 12, 1900, Westville (G. V. Smith). 



Winter record. Dec. 29, 1881, Hartford, a male shot 

 (H. T. G.)} 



Breeding records. 1882, Norwich, three sets of nine eggs 

 each (C. L. R.) f May 30, 1909, Talmage Hill (New Canaan), 

 eleven eggs (P. G. Howes ).^ Nested at Portland in the early 

 sixties, and eggs taken at that time have ever since been in the 

 coll. of J. H. S. No recent record. 



Albino. Quinnipiac Marshes, Sept. 30, 1901, young female 

 taken, colored yellowish tawny olive with markings of broccoli- 

 brown (C. R. Hooker, in coll. of L. B. B.). 



Coturnicops novebcracensis (Gmelin). Yellow Rail. 



A fall migrant in October to our marshes ; probably not un- 

 common, but seldom taken owing to its secretive habits. 



Merriam^ records that they breed about Middletown (W. W. 

 C.), and that several have been taken near Milford (Grinnell) 

 and Stratford (Linsley). 



Earliest record. Little River Marshes, Middletown, Sept. 8, 

 1894 (in coll. of J. H. S.). 



Latest record. Milford, Nov. 10, 1876 (Grinnell).*' 



Spring record. March 24, 1888, Gaylordsville, a male taken 

 by E. H. Austin (in coll. of Bpt. Sci. Soc.). 



Fall records since 1894. Middletown, Sept. 8 (1894) — Oct. 

 25 (1894), five taken (Gould, Strong, Tryon, in coll. of J. H. S.) ; 

 Quinnipiac Marshes, Sept. 15 (1908) — Oct. 15 (1894), twelve 

 taken (Andrews, A. Ganung, P. Stetson, Whitney, H. W. F., L. 

 C. S., L. B. B., in coll. of H. W. F., L. C. S., and L. B. B.). 



Breeding record. The only breeding record is that of W. W. 

 C.,* who informed Merriam that they bred about Middletown in 

 1874 and 1875. A questionable record — probably a misunder- 

 standing (J. H. S.). 



Creciscus jamaicensis (Gmelin). Black Rail. 

 A rare summer resident. 



* Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. ii8. 



