of Hylas but this evening I had a good chance to study it 
critically and I quickly came to the conclusion that it was 
the note of some bird that was in the marsh. It was distinctly 
Rail-like yet too different from any Rail voice known to me 
to be referred to any of our common species. I cannot 
imagine what it could have been ma.de by, unless by a Yellow 
Rail. I certainly have never heard it before. 
