^ The Yellow Rail in Connecticut .— 1 am indebted to Mr. E. H. Austin of 
Gaylordsville, Conn., fora specimen of the Yellow Rail (. Porzana nove- 
Boracensis) found at that place on March 24. Mr. Austin writes in refer- 
ence to it: “It was picked up in the morning at the side of the road near 
the river by a boy who found it in an exhausted condition, and was taken 
into the house where it revived enough to run about the room, but finally 
died in the evening. The most singular point in my mind is that the Sat- 
urday it was found the thermometer stood at io°, and the day before at 7° 
It Wtis taken into- the Post Office as a rare or unknown bird.” 
It proved to be a male. I sent the contents of the gizzard to the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, and Dr. A. K. Fisher says in a letter of the 30th 
inst. : “The seeds found in the gizzard of the Rail are as follows: one 
grape seed, one grass seed ( Paspalum ), two sedges ( Carex ). Probably the 
grape seed was taken in with gravel.” 
Mr. Austin has recorded his discovery in ‘Forest and Stream.’ C. K. 
Averill, Jr. , Bridgeport, Conn. Auk> y, July, 1688. p. ■ 
Auk, : "I, July, 1896, p. 3JU 
Porzana noveboracensis.— Three specimens of this rarely seen Rail 
were shot here during September and October, 1894. 
• /V. £ u-nsv\ . 
1696. An Early Yellow Rail. 
Gay lord svi lie. Conn., March 24. 
By E. H. Austin. Ibid., p. 205. — At . 
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