Some Birds of Rare or Accidental Oc- 
currence in Mew England. H*A.Purdie 
12. Rallus elegans. King Rail. — In the collection of Mr. George 
0. Welch, of Lynn, Mass., is a mounted specimen shot at Nahant, No- 
vember 21, 1875. This is a second species new to Massachusetts, and 
has been but once or twice before recorded from any part' of New Eng- 
land. 
Bull# N, Q. C, 2, Jan., 1877. p, 22 
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: r *- «f the King Rail efe } 
‘^ tA - was got on the Sudbury Meadows 
some years since, lift, i ntf >■■»'■( L iw- hi — —if. This occur- 
rence of the Rail is the second instance known for Massachusetts, 
h.m. 
Bull N. O. C. 3 , July. 18 ? 8 , p. , 
General Notes 
Two Cape Cod Records. — Rallus elegans. — Mr. P. L. Small o f 
Provincetown, Mass., has presented me with the remains of a King Rail 
that was caught in a muskrat trap in North Truro early in February, 
1892. The skin has been badly damaged by mice, but enough is left 
unhurt to make the identification certain. Mr. Small received the bird in 
the flesh a few days after it was taken. The early part of the winter of 
1891-1892 was very mild in eastern Massachusetts, and I am told that 
until the middle of February there was no ice in the marshes where the 
Rail was captured. 
Ank IX, Oct, 1892. p.390 
Auk, XIII, Jan. , 1890, p 
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Rallus elegans. — October 19, a young King Rail was taken in Long- 
meadow. It was found in the Zizania aqwatica which grows so profusely 
along the banks of the Connecticut River. The presence of this species 
in this part of the valley, I believe, has never before been noted ; and 
the Clapper Rail ( Rallus longirostris crepitans) has been captured here 
but twice. Rckt.y-t O . Sf > rt <lcC , Gw <U 4 . 
Rallus elegans and Ionornis martinica in Massachusetts. — While 
examining recently the collection of bird skins of Mr. Alfred Hill of Bel- 
mont 1 was interested to find among them a male King Rail ( Rallus ele- 
gans) which was taken Dec. 30, 1896, at Cambridge, and which furnishes 
the first record of the species for the vicinity. The bird was caught on 
the ice of a small pond in the Fresh Pond marshes. It was in good plum- 
age but was much emaciated and died in the night following the day of 
its capture. 
I am indebted to Dr. L. C. Jones of Malden for the information that 
there came into his possession in April, 1902, a fine male Purple Galli- 
nule ( Ionornis martinica ) which was shot at Sandwich by John McArdle, 
a local gunner. — J. A. Farley, Boston , Mass. 
Ank, XX 11, Oct., 1905, p A°% 
'?Z*ed 77Z&J s. 
ta Srr e K 7, Rail in Massachusetts. - I would like to report the 
the Charles 7 ' Ua 6 ( ' Rallus ele 9 an «) on October 10, 1907 on 
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