The Yellow Rail ( Porzana noveboracensis) in Massachusetts. 
Mr. Charles I. Goodale, the Boston taxidermist, tells me that he once 
found Yellow Rails actually abundant at Plj’mouth, Massachusetts. In 
company with a friend he killed ten specimens in a few hours. They were 
flushed from tall sedge on a salt marsh and many more were seen at the 
same time. They, however, have never since been found in the same 
locality. 
Mr. Goodale also kills one or two specimens every season at Wakefield, 
Massachusetts. He finds them, both spring and fall, when shooting Snipe 
on fresh-water meadows. — William Brewster, Cambridge , Mass. 
Bxill. N.O.C. 6, July, 1881, p. /&7. 
A specimen of the Yellow Rail was taken 
on Wakefield meadows, May 9. 
O.& O. XIII. Juse. 1838 P- 9£? 
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