pot, With the common ones, and discuss its 
flesh instead of its plumage. 
Yet such a triumph has been mme the fi t 
specimen of all that list of stragg e tell m o 
' handS on the ’20th of October last -a Corn 
She (Crex crex), a bird about the -ze and ap- 
(M not examined too closely) 
ASsaSsSiis 
i 
,- h(1 head of a marsh, the souice u 
at the h _ tw0 miles through salt 
stream wind g - Island Sound, 
meadows to its outlet into ura 8 
5civz&33£ 
rriS--* 
SlGSsSSS 
'there from the European Continent about Api d 
° r ,ff/‘o, a shy and retiring disposition, and 
i „ ., nr i from seven to teii 
ln . )' e \'h eh- ground color varies from ecru drab 
Stwo, and they 
a^sDiOe'w'spotrof'purplish-^ray^ p^^ave^a 
ure 1.41 x 1.07 and larger, and the sp 
\ t-n run lengthwise on the eggs, 
tendency toiun tn haye beell taken in 
Specimens of t New Jerse y, and the 
Greenland, Long Isia aark ha s added 
Bermudas, an n loc ” utieB . it therefore 
sssrs 
single specimen having ee 
“ P.N.] 
0.& o. XIII. Mar. 1888 p. - V ^ • 
