King Rail ( Rallus elegans ) in Massachusetts. — On September 15 , 
1917, on the edge of a fresh water pond, at Haverhill, Mass., I saw a rail 
which I supposed was this species, but I was unable to secure it. Just a 
month later in the same spot I again saw it, and succeeded in shooting it. 
The specimen was identified from a photograph, by Mr. E. H. Forbush 
and Mr. Walter Rich, and by Mr. M. Abbott Frazar, the taxidermist who 
mounted it. — Charles B. Morss, Haverhill, Mass. 
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