46 THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 



A common migrant and summer resident, the most common of 

 our Rails. 



(April) to October 12. 



(76) 215. Porzana noveboracensis (Gmel.). YELLOW 

 RAIL. There are four records for this species. Mr. F. L. 

 Glezen, of Providence, shot a bird at Charlestown Beach on 

 September 28, 1886, 1 and a specimen was received from Mr. 

 C. H. Lawton by Mr. J. M. Southwick on September 23, 1887, 

 shot by a Newport gunner. One was killed by flying against 

 a telegraph wire in Cranston. One was taken September 14, 

 1894, (exact locality unknown) by Mr. H. O. Havemeyer, Jr. 



(77) [217]. Crex crex (Linn.). CORN CRAKE. A strag- 

 gler from Europe. Mr. Newton Dexter killed one in Cranston in 

 1857, and it is now in the Franklin Society collection at Provi- 

 dence. 2 



(78) 218. lonornis martinica (Linn.). PURPLE GALLI- 

 NULE. An accidental visitant. A bird was taken at Westerly, 

 in 1857?,* and another in 1875 by Mr. Newton Dexter. One 

 at Warwick about August, 1886, and lived at least a year in 

 Handy's Dime Museum, Providence, 4 one was found dead on 

 January 13, i8Sg, 5 now in Dr. Gardiner's collection. Mr. New- 

 ton Dexter writes that it was picked up dead on Mr. Warren 

 Kempton's farm, and was mounted by him in crude fashion. 

 Mr. Dexter obtained it of him and remounted it. Another was 

 killed at Sakonnet in the fall of the same year by Mr. Newton 

 Dexter, another flew aboard a schooner at Wilkesbierre Pier, 

 Providence, May 13, 1890, and was brought to Mr. J. M. South- 

 wick for identification by Mr. G. F. Snow. A male was shot at 



'O. & O., Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 32. 



2 Ran. Notes, Vol. I, No. VI, p. 3. 



Allen's Revised List Birds of Mass." Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 265. 



3 Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, Vol. VII, No. 2, p. 124. 



Allen's Revised List Birds of Mass. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 236. 

 Coues and Stearns, New Eng. Bird Life, Part II, p. 293. 



4 Ran. Notes, Vol. Ill, No. X, p. 79. 

 5 F. & S., Vol. XXXIII, No. 19, p. 364. 



