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also been recorded from Maine and New Brunswick, as well as 

 Connecticut. 



*105. Porzana jamaicensis. BLACK RAIL. Very rare, per- 

 haps accidental, summer visitant. One instance only of its capture 

 in Massachusetts hitherto recorded (Clark's Isl., Plymouth Har- 

 bor, Aug. 1869, Pur die, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, II, 1877, 22). As 

 yet only two records of its capture in Connecticut, where it has 

 been found breeding (see Merriam, Rev. Bds. Conn., 1877, 119). 



I now add another Massachusetts record, on information fur- 

 nished me by Mr. A. W. Baker, who found a pair at Chatham with 

 young in July, 1884, and a nest with four eggs in May, 1885. 



[106.] lonornis martinica. PURPLE GALLINULE. Acciden- 

 tal. A recent record of its occurrence is Rockport, April 12, 1875 

 ( Whitman, Am. Nat., IX, 1875, 674). More easterly recent 

 records are Calais, Me. (Boardman, Am. Nat., Ill, 498) ; Booth- 

 bay, Me. (Purdie, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, 1880, 242); Halifax, 

 Jan. 30, 1870 (Jones, Am. Nat., IV, 253); New Brunswick, two 

 instances (Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, 1881, 186 ; Cham- 

 ber laine, ibid., VII, 1882, 105). A new Rhode Island record is 

 Westerly, about 1857 (Jencks, ibid., VII, 1881, 124). (For refer- 

 ences to earlier records see Stearns and Coues's " New England 

 Bird Life," II, 1883, 293.) 



*107. Gallinula galeata. FLORIDA GALLINULE. Rare sum- 

 mer visitant, doubtless occasionally breeding (see Allen, Am. Nat., 

 Ill, Feb. 1870, 639). Recent records are Nantucket, Oct. 1872 

 (Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, IV, 1879, 63), and Wayland, Sept. 

 10, 1878 (Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XX, 273). A re- 

 cent New Brunswick record is Dick's Lake, Sept. 1880 (Brewster, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, 1881, 186). Given as rather common 

 in Connecticut by Merriam (Rev. Bds. Conn., 1877, 19). 



*108. Flllica americana. AMERICAN COOT. Rare summer 

 resident ; more numerous in fall and spring. 



109. Crymophilus fulicarius. RED PHALAROPE. Not 

 common spring and autumn migrant, chiefly off the coast. Rare- 

 ly taken. " Well out in Massachusetts Bay," Aug. 31, 1878 (New- 

 comb, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, IV, 1879, I2 7 '> Forest and Stream, 

 XXII, No. 25, July 17, 1884, 484). 



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