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The Purple Gallinule in Massachusetts in the Breeding Season. — In 
August, 1899 , 1 saw at the farm of Mr. A. J. Severance in Rowley, Mass., a 
mounted specimen of the Purple Gallinule ( Ionornis martinica') . The bird 
was caught in June, 1897, by a cat at a pond in the adjoining town of Box- 
ford. Another bird, supposed to be of the same species and the mate, was 
seen at the pond. This appears to be the second record of the occurrence 
of Ionornis martinica in Essex county, the specimen previously noted 
being preserved in the collection of the Peabody Academy of Science at 
Salem. 
Another hitherto unpublished record of Ionornis martinica. in Massa- 
chusetts is that of a beautiful specimen which I saw in the flesh in April, 
1890, at the stall of W. W. Palmer, Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. The 
bird had been caught in a muskrat trap at Chatham. —J. A. Farley, Mi/. 
*««. Auk, XVIII, April., 1901, p , t 90* 
Massachusetts Bird Notes. - Ionornis martinica. - Another instance 
of the occurrence of this species in northern Essex County has come to 
my notice. In June of the present year I saw at the residence of Mrs. 
Wm. S. Horner of Georgetown a mounted specimen of the Purple Galli- 
nule. Mrs. Horner informs me that the bird was shot by a local gunner in 
the spring “several years ago” (probably not less than ten years) in a 
meadow in Byfield parish, town of Newbury. The locality is not many 
m.les from the pond where the pair of Purple Gallinules was seen in June 
1897, as I haye_filready recorded in ‘ The Auk _(April, 1901, p. 190). 
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Auk, XVIII Oct., 1901, Pp. 319, iff. 
