ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES Ler 
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Essex County: “Summer resident. Rather rare.” Springfield: “Com- 
mon summer, and a very rare winter, resident.’” Templeton: “ Rather 
rare summer resident.’’ Wellesley: “Not uncommon summer resident.” 
8. Rallus elegans Aud. KING RAIL. 
An accidental visitant from the South. The records are: /Va- 
hant, one taken November 21, 18751; (Brewer’s record of a bird 
taken here in the spring of 1876, probably refers to this speci- 
men): Sudbury Meadows, Mr. G. E. Browne took one “ some years 
since,” ¢. @. prior to 1878;? Spring field, a male taken on Long- 
meadow, October 19, 1895, by Mr. W. C. Pease.® 
g. Rallus crepitans Gmel. CLAPPER RalL. 
An accidental visitant from the south. The records are: 
Massachusetts, one presented by Theodore Lyman, to the Boston 
; Society of Natural History, August 7, 1850;4 Dedham, an adult 
taken by Mr. G. E. Browne in 1863 ;° Zaunton, one shot by Mr. C. 
L. Blood, on October 9, 1864;° Boston Harbour, one flew aboard a 
vessel, and was captured, May 4, 1875, and is now in the mounted 
collection of the Boston Society of Natural History ;7 PZymouth, one 
taken at Gurnet Point by Mr. Arthur Smith, October, 1879 ;° Jps- 
wich, J. ¥. LeBaron informed Mr. C. J. Maynard that he shot one 
“some years ago” [prior to 1870];° Kvzngston, one taken at . 
Rocky Nook, December 29, 1885 ;1° Spring field, two instances at 
Northampton and Hadley Meadows ;" ast Orleans, a male taken 
November 30, 1895, by Mr. J. G Rogers, and now in the collec- 
tion of Mr. William Brewster.” 
1Purdie; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. II, No. 1, Jan., 1877, p. 22. 
2 Purdie; zdzd., Vol. III, No. 3, July, 1878, p. 146. 
3 Morris; Auk, Vol. XIII, No. 1, Jan., 1896, p. 86. 
4Cabot; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. IIL, 1851, p. 326. 
> Wakefield ; Birds of Dedham, 1891, p. 71. 
6 Copeland; zz MS. 
7 Purdie; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. II, No. 1, Jan., 1877, p. 22. 
8 Brewster; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. VI, No. 1, Jan., 1881, p. 62. 
®Maynard; Nat. Guide, 1870, p. 145. 
10 Browne; Auk, Vol. IV, No. 4, Oct., 1887, p. 344. 
11 Morris; Auk, Vol. IX, No. 1, Jan., 1892, p. 74, and Birds of Springfield, 
19OI, Pp. 13. 
12 Brewster; Auk, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Apr., rgo01, p. 135. 
