112 REPORT OF IS T EW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



semi-brackish marshes of Cape May to Trenton ; also at Elizabeth, 1 the 

 Newark marshes, 2 near Summit, 3 and at Princeton. 4 Mr. S. N". 

 Rhoads also found it breeding in the Wallkill valley, Sussex county, 

 June llth, 1909. 



Dr. C. C. Abbott 5 records two birds killed at Trenton in January, 

 1869, and several were seen and shot by Dr. Huey on Dennis Creek, 

 Cape May county, December 30th, 1895. Along the coast it occurs in 

 migrations, and has been shot at Atlantic City as late as November 

 6th, 1891 (I. K DeHaven). In all respects a miniature of the King 

 Rail. 



214 Porzana Carolina (Linnaeus). 

 Sora, Carolina Rail. 



PLATE 16. 



Adults. Length, 7.85-9.75. Wing, 4.25-4.30. Forehead, fore part of face, 

 center of crown, chin and throat, black ; 'upper parts, brownish-olive, streaked 

 with black, and with narrow white tips and edgings ; sides of head and neck 

 and entire breast, plumbeous ; sides of body and flanks, broadly barred black 

 and white ; middle of abdomen, white ; crissum, buff. 



Young in first autumn. Similar above, but sides of face and the breast 

 brownish ; throat and abdomen, white ; sides, duller. 



Nest of grass in fresh-water marshes ; eggs, eight to fifteen, buff, spotted with 

 rusty brown and lavender, 1.25 x .90. 



A common migrant along the Delaware meadows and in marshes in 

 the northeastern portion of the State. April 1st to May 10th and 

 August 20th to October 25th. At Greenwich, Salem county, it occa- 

 sionally winters, according to Mr. S. N. Rhoads. Mr. Chapman says 

 it is a rare summer resident near New York City, 7 and Mr. Scott took 

 a half-fledged young in July, 1880, near Princeton. 8 Dr. W. E. 

 Hughes has found nests on the Delaware marshes below Philadelphia, 

 and both Wilson and Audubon mention young birds taken in the same 

 vicinity. 



1 H. T. Haines, O. and O., 1883, p. 7. 

 2 J. P. Callender. 



3 H. H. Hann, Wilson Bulletin, 1905, p. 120. 



4 Babson, Birds of Princeton, p. 40. 



5 Amer. Nat, IV., p. 549. 



6 Cassinia, 1901, p. 51. 



7 Birds Vicinity N. Y. City, p. 144. 



8 Babson, Birds of Princeton, p. 40. 



