18 BirpDs OF MASSACHUSETTS 
ro. Rallus virginianus Linn. VirRGINIA RAIL. 
A common local summer resident, wintering on Cape Cod and 
once at Worcester. 
April 18 to October 15 (November 27) ; Winter. 
Amherst: Nests about Adam’s Pond. Berkshire: “ Rare summer 
resident.’’ Bristol County: ‘‘ Uncommon summer resident.” Brookline: 
“Formerly a summer resident.” Cambridge: Common summer resi- 
dent. Dedham: “Common.” Essex County: “ Summer visitant. Rather 
rare.’ Nantucket: “ Not unusual.” Springfield: “Abundant summer 
resident.” Wellesley: “Common summer resident.” 
11. Porzana carolina (Linn.). Carona RAIL. 
A common local summer resident. 
April 14 to November 1 (December 20). 
Amherst: ‘“ Occasional summer resident.” Berkshire: ‘‘ Rare summer 
resident.” Bristol County: ‘‘ Uncommon summer resident.” Brookline: 
‘“ An uncommon migrant.” Cambridge: Very common summer resident. 
Dedham: “Common.” Essex County: “Summer visitant. Rather rare.” 
Ipswich: Two instances. Nantucket: “Common.” Springfield: ‘““Com- 
mon summer resident,” often “abundant during autumn.” Templeton: 
‘Abundant summer resident.” Wellesley: ‘‘Common summer resident.” 
12. Porzana noveboracensis (Gmel.). YELLOW RAIL. 
A rare spring and autumn migrant. 
April to May ; September 2 to October 16. 
Amherst: One instance; Northampton. Cambridge: Rare transient 
visitant. Dedham: “Rare.” Springfield: “Rare visitor.”’ Several in- 
stances. Templeton: Mentioned. Wellesley: “ Rare transient visitant.” 
13. Porzana jamaicensis (Gmel.). BLACK Ratt. 
An extremely rare summer resident. The records are: Ply- 
mouth Harbour, Clark’s Island, one picked up dead in August, 
1869;1 Boston, one found in the streets, September 20, 18743? 
Chatham, a pair with young in July, 1884, and a nest with eggs, 
in May, 1885 35% Hazardville, bred ‘“‘a number of years ago” 
according to J. H. Batty.* 
1 Purdie; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. II, No. 1, Jan., 1877, p. 22. 
? Curtis ; Forest and Stream, Vol. VIII, Apr. 5, 1877, p. 129. 
3 Allen ; Revised Birds of Mass., 1886, p. 236. 
‘Morris; Birds of Springfield, 1got, p. 13. 
