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rushes had been mowed. This is the first time I ever noted them 

 here. After this date I saw several others about the same place, 

 during this year (1874). I also shot a few yellow rails, and saw 

 many." 



Cottle's record is, I believe, correct and is the only authentic 

 Canadian record. (/. H. Fleming.) I believe I saw a black rail 

 at the mouth of the St. Clair in June. It flushed very close to me 

 and was very small with a sora-like bill and apparently exactly 

 like skins of the black rail which I have seen. {W. Saunders.) 



LXXXIII. CREX Bechstein. 1802. 



217. Corn Crake. 



Crex crex (Linn.) Sharpe. 1884. 



A rare casual in Greenland. One obtained at Godthaab and 

 sent to the museum of Copenhagen in 1851. (Arct. Man.) Taken 

 in Greenland in 1887, 1892, 1893 and 1894. (Winge.) 



In The Auk for January, 1899, Mr. James McKinley,'of Pictou, 

 Nova Scotia, records the shooting of a specimen of this species 

 in a marsh near Pictou nearly twenty-five years ago. The speci- 

 men remained unidentified until a recent visit paid to Pictou by 

 Mr. Frank M. Chapman, who at once identified it. 



LXXXIV. lONORNIS Reichenbach. 1852. 



218. Purple Gallinule. 



lonornis martinica (Linn.) Reich. 1852. 



A very rare casual in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. {Downs. 

 Chamberlain.) 



Mcllwraith records the capturing of one individual at Pickering, 

 Ont., in April, 1892. 



The above are all the records we have of this species. 



LXXXV. GALLINULA Brisson. 1760. 



219. Florida Gallinule. 



Gallinula galeata (Light.) Bonap. 1832. 



A rare casual in New Brunswick. One shot at Dick lake, 

 September, 1879. {Chamberlain.) One specimen was taken during 



