Notes on the Birds. AB 
47. GRUS MEXICANA (Miiller). SANDHILL CRANE. (206) 
A rare migrant, at least in Carroll County, particularly in the northwest 
portion, where one was seen April 7, 1885. 
48. RALLUS ELEGANS Audubon. KING RAIL. (208) 
A rare summer resident in Vigo County where I have seen it at the Goose 
Pond and at the Five-mile Pond, April 29, and May 19, 1888. 
49. RALLUS VIRGINIANUS Linnzus. VIRGINIA RAIL. (212) 
Rare summer resident in Vigo County. Found nesting at the Goose Pond 
May 31, 1890, and April 21, 1888. Not noted in Carroll or Monroe. 
50. PorzANA CAROLINA (Linnzus). SORA OR CAROLINA RAIL. (214) 
Summer resident, not common. Found nesting in the Goose Pond in Vigo 
County; noted April 21, 1889. 
Carroll County: I shot one on my father’s farm in April, 1879. May 4 
and 5, 1884, saw several in the Armstrong pond at Camden; May 9, 1885, 
one seen. 
Monroe County: May 5, 1886; April 15, 1887. 
51. CoruRNICOPS NOVEBORACENSIS (Gmelin). YELLOW RAIL. (215) 
Rare migrant; noted only in Monroe County. 
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52. GALLINULA GALEATA (Lichtenstein). FLORIDA GALLINULE.~ (219) 
Rare summer resident. Noted once at the Goose Pond, where I found a 
set of five well-incubated eggs, May 51,1890. A specimen obtained near Bur- 
lington, April 28, 1883, by Wallace Gwinn who brought it to us; and I saw 
another, May 11, 1885, in Steckton’s woods northwest of my father’s house. 
53. FULICA AMERICANA Gmelin. cooT. (221) 
Common spring and fall migrant, and rare summer resident. 
I have in my notes recorded the Coot as occurring in Monroe County, but 
no details are given. 
In Vigo County, where there are several ponds and bayous, the Coot is 
not only a common spring and fall migrant, but a good many breed in the 
county. A few could usually be seen at the Five-mile Pond north of Terre 
Haute and several pairs nested each season at the Goose Pond, nine miles 
south of Terre Haute, where U. O. Cox found a nest with eight eggs, May 31, 
1890. Noted also on April 17, 1888. 
My first record of the Coot in Carroll County is of three seen on the 
Wabash just above the feeder dam at Delphi, April 19, 1884. On November 
20, of the same year, one was killed on the Armstrong pond at Camden, 
and brought to us. On April 8, 1885, I saw two on Deer Creek at Porter’s 
dam, where one was taken May 12. I have no evidence that the species 
breeds in this county. 
