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Connecticut records. July 10, 1876, Saybrook, female sitting 

 on nest of ten eggs (four eggs in coll. of J. N. C.) j 1 June 13, 1884, 

 Saybrook, nine eggs taken (J. N. C.) ? July u, 1893, Aug. 12, 

 1904, Quinnipiac Marshes, North Haven, flushed ( ?) , but not ob- 

 tained (L. B. B.) ; Sept. 14, 1904, Essex, young bird (Whitney, 

 in coll. of L. C. S.). 



Crex crex (Linnaeus). Corn Crake. 



The only record of this species in Connecticut is that of J. 

 N. C. of Saybrook, who obtained an adult male, Oct. 20, 1887, 

 in a swampy thicket at the head of a marsh some two miles from 

 Long Island Sound. It is recorded and described in O. and 0., 

 xiii, 3, pp. 45-6. 



Subfamily GALLINULINJE. Gallinules. 



lonornis martinicus (Linnaeus). Purple Gallinule. 



A very rare accidental visitor from the South. 



Merriam 1 records a specimen taken near Middletown, about 

 1855, and now in the Wesleyan University Museum; Henry R. 

 Smith of Stamford mounted a specimen taken there in 1877, while 

 Hoyt reports another from Stamford in the spring of 1884; a 

 female was collected at Bridgeport, Jufte 26, 1903, by J. H. 

 Canfield (in coll. of Beers). 



Gallinula galeata (Lichtenstein). Florida Gallinule. 



A rather rare fall visitant, occasionally taken by sportsmen 

 while shooting Rail. 



Although Grinnell 1 called it a rather common summer resident, 

 the only summer record which we have is a specimen in the Pea- 

 body Museum, taken by E. L. Coe, in New Haven, in June, 1899. 



Coast records. Sept. 28, 1889, Stratford, female taken (in 

 Averill coll. of Bpt. Sci. Soc.) ; Sept. 20, 1903, Sept. 15, 1904, 

 Essex (in coll. of L. C. S.) ; Sept. 30, 1902, New Haven (H. 

 Whitney) ; Sept. 4, 1906, Essex (F. F. Brewster, in coll. of L. 

 B. B.) ; Oct. 16, 1906, Stratford (L. C. S.) ; Sept. 15, 28, 1908, 

 New Haven (P. Stetson); Sept. 25, 1911, Stratford, two taken 

 (H. W. B.). 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 119. 

 *Auk, i, 4, pp. 393-4- 



