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My attention was first called to the presence of the Rails 
by hearing their call-notef consisting of two short notes) at night 
on July I3th. My brother and I listened the next evening and heard 
the rattling note of a Loraf as we afterwards ascertained ) . This, 
as nearly as I can describe it, is a rattling note, somewhat re- 
sembling the call of the Clapper Rail, but sharper and not so 
heavy. The note starts with a guttural sound and is followed by 
several sharp notes, repeated in quck succession: ur-fyr-^r-rr , rik® 
-a -bdik -b dik -htdik-* dik-.«*dik ,fs- These notes would also be 
uttered when the birds we me disturbed by stones thrown in the cat- 
tails where they were . The Loras also had another soft whist- 
ling note of a couple of syllables. After considerable hunting, 
assisted by a rabbit hound, we secured a female Lora with eggs, 
one ready to lay. Further hunting revealed the fact that there 
were also Virginia Rails in the ponds, and we found a couple of 
nests with eggs. One nest with nine eggs appeared to be deserted, 
and in looking around my brother found a female Virginia Rail 
which had evidently been killed by some oil from a sewer. I be- 
lieve it was the mate of this bird which we afterwards heard every 
night as we hunted the pond, but the dog se med to find only one 
bird, which he' sometimes hunted for a long time, seldom flushing it. 
