THE BIRDS OF ONEIDA COUNTY. Ill 



45. Porzana Carolina (LINN.). 214. 



Sora. 



A summer resident. Breeds. More common during migrations. 



46. Porzana noveboracensis (GMEL.). 215. 



Yellow Rail. 



One taken near Utica October 3d. 1883. 



47. G-allinula galeata (LICHT.). 219. 



Florida Gallluule. 



Two have been taken near Utica. Occasional at Oneida Lake. 

 Very common on the marshes of the Seneca River, where they are 

 called "Water chickens," and where they breed in great numbers. 

 June 4th, IS'79, a nest was found containing four eggs. June 

 5th, at eleven A. M., it contained six eggs. The same day at five 

 p. M., there were nine eggs, when the female, or one of them, was 

 killed. The same month an old bird, followed by a brood of 

 young, was observed leaving her nest, which on examination was 

 found to contain one egg of this species and two of the Podilymbus 

 podiceps, all with chicks peeping in them. It was impossible to 

 distinguish which of the two species the old bird was ; but from 

 these observations it seems positive that this bird not only shares 

 its nest with its own species, but sometimes with the Grebe also. 



48. Fulica americana GMEL. 221. 



American Coot. 



One taken at Utica. " Common at Oneida Lake." (Brainard.} 



49. Phalaropus lobatus (LINN.). 



Northern Phalarope. 



Early in the spring of 1881, a specimen of this bird was taken 

 in the town of Westmoreland, in this odd manner. It was first 



