Large Set of Eggs of the Carolina 
Rail. 
Mr. E. G. Tabor, of Meridian, N. Y., reports 
having found a nest of the Carolina Rail 
(known also as the Sora Rail —Porzana Car- 
olina) containing seventeen eggs, and wishes 
to know if that is not a most unusual number. 
In some of them incubation was far advanced, 
while others were only slightly incubated. 
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1679. Ice-bound Rail. By Robert B. Lawrence. Ibid. — Porzana 
car oling at Flu shing, L. I., Dec. 23. ’OT, & Stream, Y'oJa SO , 6 
775 - Nesting of the Common Rail ( Porzana Carolina) Niell 7 = Vieill.). 
By william l. Keiis. ibid., pp. 283, 284. Qan« Sport* & Naturalist* III 
Shufeldt, R. W. Osteology oi Porzana carouna. , |ulmr c 
& Surg., July, 1888.) W1 "l’. meu. 
Shufeldt on the Skeleton of the C arolin a Rail. -Another recent paper 
y Dr. Shufeldt contains a detailed description of the osteology of Porza- 
na Carolina* with figures of the principal elements of the skeleton. . The 
pelvis is found to possess many points in common with that of Geococcyx, 
each having a probosis and the same peculiar pattern of the pre-aCetabular 
portion of the ilium. Various rather peculiar modifications of other skel- 
etal elements are pointed out— J. A. A. Auk, Y, Oct., 1888, p. y/y. 
CmTs Sy llo°ZZ Ca ^ iKa - (Th t Car0linaRai, -> By R. W. Shufeldt, M.D. 
t. M. Z. S. 8vo, pp. 16, with 7 cuts in the text. Reprinted from the < Tournal of rv 
parative Medicine and Surgery,’ July, 1888. Journal of Corn- 
