Annotated List of Species 1 7 



Essex County : " Summer resident. Rather rare." Springfield : " Com- 

 mon summer, and a very rare winter, resident." Templeton : " Rather 

 rare summer resident." Wellesley : "Not uncommon summer resident." 



8. Rallus elegans Aud. King Rail. 



An accidental visitant from the South. The records are : Na- 

 hant, one taken November 21, 1875 '; (Brewer's record of a bird 

 taken here in the spring of 1876, probably refers to this speci- 

 men) : Sudbury Meadows, Mr. G. E. Browne took one " some years 

 since," i. e. prior to 1878;^ Springfield, a male taken on Long- 

 meadow, October 19, 1895, by Mr. W. C. Pease.'- 



9. Rallus crepitans Gmel. Clapper Rail. 



An accidental visitant from the south. Th-e records are : 

 Massachusetts, one presented by Theodore Lyman, to the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, August 7, 1850;* Dedham, an adult 

 taken by Mr. G. E. Browne in 1863 ; * Taunton, one shot by Mr. C. 

 L. Blood, on October 9, 1864 ; ° Boston Harbour, one flew aboard a 

 vessel, and was captured, May 4, 1875, and is now in the mounted 

 collection of the Boston Society of Natural History ; ' Plymouth, one 

 taken at Gurnet Point by Mr. Arthur Smith, October, 1879 ; * Ips- 

 ■wich, J. F. LeBaron informed Mr. C. J. Maynard that he shot one 

 "some years ago" [prior to 1870];° Kingston, one taken at 

 Rocky Nook, December 29, 1885 ; ■'° Springfield, two instances at 

 Northampton and Hadley Meadows ; ^^ East Orleans, a male taken 

 November 30, 1895, by Mr. J. G Rogers, and now in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. William Brewster." 



iPurdie; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. II, No. i, Jan., 1877, p. 22. 

 ^Purdie; ibid., Vol. Ill, No. 3, July, 1878, p. 146. 

 5 Morris; Auk, Vol. XIII, No. 1, Jan., 1896, p. 86. 

 < Cabot; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. Ill, 1S51, p. 326. 

 ^Wakefield; Birds of Dedham, 1891, p. 71. 

 ^ Copeland ; in MS. 



' Purdie; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. II, No. i, Jan., 1877, p. 22. 

 « Brewster; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. VI, No. i, Jan., 1881, p. 62. 

 'Maynard; Nat. Guide, 1870, p. 145. 

 '"Browne; Auk, Vol. IV, No. 4, Oct., 1887, p. 344. 



11 Morris; Auk, Vol. IX, No. i, Jan., 1892, p. 74, and Birds of Springfield, 

 1901, p. 13. 

 '2 Brewster; Auk, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Apr., 1901, p. 135. 



