Porzana Carolina . 
Concord, 
1895. 
Aug. 19. 
Mass . 
The wild rice beds at the head of Beaver Dam Rapid were 
alive with Carolina Rails to-day. Scarce a minute passed 
without one or more calling hi£ or ki-ki in sharp explosive 
tones and when I struck the water with the flat of my paddle 
half-a-dozen or more responded at once. I ran the canoe into 
the reeds and watched the open spaces for ten or fifteen min- 
utes but not a bird showed hinself. All the while some oird 
(probably a Rail and perhaps P . Carolina ) concealed in a dense 
cluster of reeds within a few yards of me kept uttering a 
succession of singular cries, most of therrl low and crooning 
but some sharp and grating like the scold of a Wren. I did 
not recognize any of these sounds and think I have never heard 
them before. Of course the Carolina Rails must have been 
migrants from further north. I heard one in the reeds along 
the Holt. 
