Porzana :i ama icons is . ( ? ) . 
Concord, 
1898. 
June 12. 
■. on 
Mass . 
The "Kicker". 
At daybreak this morning and from a little after sunset 
until I went to sleep the "Kicker" was chanting his merry 
little song in the Great Meadow. I heard it to great advan- 
tage very many times, for the bird was nearer than he has been 
former occasions and the air was perfectly still. The number 
of hi notes varied from five to seven or eight. (It is very 
difficult to count them they are given so rapidly). Their 
delivery is sometimes smooth with even intervals, sometimes 
halting with the intervals varying greatly in length. The 
voice of this bird is somewhat grating and harsh throughout, 
the terminal chur being especially so. 
June 12 
