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rushes had been mowed. This is the first time I ever noted them 

 here. After this date I saw several others about the same place, 

 during this year (1874). I also shot a few yellow rails, and saw 

 many." 



Cottle's record is, I believe, correct and is the only authentic 

 Canadian record. (/. H. Fleming.) I believe I saw a black rail 

 at the mouth of the St. Clair in June. It flushed very close to me 

 and was verv small with a sora-like bill and apparently exactly 

 like skins of the black rail which I have seen. {W. Saitndeys.) 



LXXXIII. CREX Bechstein. 1802. 



217. Corn Crake. 



Crcx OCX (Linn.) Sharpe. 1884. 



A rare casual in Greenland. One obtained at Godthaab and 

 sent to the museum of Copenhagen in 1S51. {Arct. Man.) Taken 

 in Greenland in 1887, 1892, 1893 and 1894. (Winge.) 



In The Auk for January, 1899, Mr. James McKinley, of Pictou, 

 Nova Scotia, records the shooting of a specimen of this species 

 in a marsh near Pictou nearly twenty-five years ago. The speci- 

 men remained unidentified until a recent visit paid to Pictou by 

 Mr. Frank M. Chapman, who at once identified it. 



LXXXIV. lONORNIS Reichenbach. 1852. 



218. Purple Gallinule. 



lonornis martinica (Linn.) Reich. 1852. 



A very rare casual in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. {Downs. 

 Chamberlain.) 



Mcllwraith records the capturing of one individual at Pickering, 

 Ont., in April, 1892. 



The above are all the records ^ve have of this species. 

 LXXXV. GALLINULA Brisson. 1760. 



219. Florida Gallinule. 



Gall inula galeata (Licht.) Bonap. 1832. 



A rare casual in New Brunswick. One shot at Dick lake, 

 September, 1879. {Chamberlain.) One specimen was taken during 



