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Beach, May 24, 1914 (Griscom, LaDow, and Johnson, see Auk, 

 1915, p. 227); another flushed in practically the same place on 

 Jones Beach, May 23, 1920 (Griscom and Janvrin); one flushed in a 

 grassy meadow at Mastic, May 31, 1920 (J. T. Nichols). Two 

 other individuals flushed, one of them twice, on the same stretch of 

 meadows on Jones Beach, May 28, 1922 (Crosby, Griscom, Janvrin, 

 Johnson). These dates are strong presumptive evidence that the 

 bird nests on Long Island where it has been seen. The favored 

 Jones Beach locality is a stretch of grassy meadow, which is com- 

 paratively dry, and bordered by a growth of bushy swamp and 

 patches of Phragmites. Every time parties have spread out 

 over this meadow and swept down it from end to end, one or more 

 Rails have been flushed. They always fly to the reed-beds, which 

 are often a hundred yards from where they are flushed, and where 

 they completely disappear. I believe the bird probably nests in 

 this thick growth and feeds out in the meadows. All efforts to 

 flush it in the thicker growth have been useless, and the old 

 "dodges" of dragging with a rope or using a rake are here 

 impossible. 



CORN CRAKE (Crex crex) 



An accidental visitant from Europe, which has occurred 

 three times on Long Island, once in August and twice in 

 November. 



PURPLE GALLINULE (lonornis martinicus) 

 Now an accidental wanderer from the South. Eighty 

 years ago Giraud regarded this species as extremely rare, but 

 Colonel Pike considered it plentiful. There are only two 

 specimens in existence from Long Island, the last taken in 

 1879. 



FLORIDA GALLINULE (Gallinula galeaia) 

 The Gallinule in this territory is an exceedingly local 

 summer resident, requiring just the right habitat. It wants, 

 apparently, a cat-tail swamp, where the water is particularly 

 deep, and where the dense beds of vegetation give way here 

 and there to ponds or open spaces of water. It is unknown or 



