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the species in its usual haunts renders especially interesting the recent 

 capture of a beautiful adult example near Portland. This, a female in 

 full nuptial plumage, was shot not far from Black Rock, Scarborough, on 

 April 23, 1911, and was brought to me in the flesh. It is now included in 

 my collection. — Henry H. Brock, Portland, Maine. 



The Snowy Egret in New Mexico. — The writer has to record another 

 occurrence of this species (Egretta c. candissima) in a locality near to the 

 one of his previous record (' The Auk,' January 1909, p. 76). 



On October 23, 1911, the writer examined, at the ranch of Mr. Mon- 

 toya (which is at the junction of the East Fork of the Gila River, and 

 Diamond Creek, N. Mex.) a skin of this species taken from an adult bird 

 shot by Mr. Montoya's son near the confluence of Black Canyon, and the 

 East Fork of the Gila River, N. Mex., in April, 1910. The bird had been 

 shot with a rifle, and in the skinning, was so damaged, that its plume 

 characteristics were not available for sex determination. The present 

 record makes the third specimen of this beautiful little Egret taken 

 within a circle whose diameter is less than one hundred miles, the two 

 other records being the one mentioned above, and one by Maj. E. L. 

 Munson, U. S. A., in 'The Auk ' of April, 1907, p. 212.— W. H. Bergtold, 

 Denver, Colo. 



King Rail {Rallus elegans) at Springfield, Mass. — On the thirtieth 

 day of August, 1911, a King Rail was captured in the wild rice that is found 

 in abundance along the shores of the Connecticut river a few miles below 

 Springfield. There are but two previous records of the occurrence of this 

 bird in the Connecticut valley near Springfield. — Robert O. Morris, 

 Springfield, Mass. 



Yellow Rail {Cotumicops noveboracensis) in Massachusetts. — During 

 the fall of 1911, three specimens of the above Rail, which is generally 

 supposed to be rare in this state, were brought to my attention. Curi- 

 ously enough two of these were shot at the same place though at very 

 different dates. The first one was shot on October 3 at West Roxbury 

 by Mr. W. P. Henderson. The second was taken at Chatham on October 

 2 by Mr. John J. Chickering. The third was shot on the very late date 

 of November 2.5 also at Chatham by Mr. Russell Bearse. This latter 

 specimen was larger and darker than the others and the yellow on the 

 breast was not so bright. I saw all of these birds at the store of Mr. C. 

 Emerson Brown, the Boston taxidermist, where I carefully examined 

 them. — S. Prescott Fay, Boston, Mass. 



Yellow Rail in Michigan. A Correction. — In ' The Auk ' for Janu- 

 ary, 1912, p. 101, in my notes on the Yellow Rail, Cotumicops novebora- 

 censis, appears the following: "This is the second recorded Michigan 

 specimen and the third noted in Wayne County." This is, of course, a 



