138 
1875. 
(July 28} 
Oct, 7, 
1876. ; 
May 11. 
1879. 
Apr. 26. 
1880. ' |! 
May 5, 
1881. 
Sept.24. 
Rallus virginianus. 
Middlesex county, Mass. 
Shot a young bird in that curious intermediate plu¬ 
mage common at this season, 
Nesbitt shov/ed me one which he shot in the Fresh 
Pond swamps to-day, Our resident birds usually leave 
earlier and our migrants come later. 
One (Fresh Pond swamps). 
One shot by Spelman in the Fresh Pond swamps. 
One male (Belmont). 
In the Fresh Pond swamps Spelman has seen numbers 
of those Rails lately, in moist but not wet thickets 
where wo find Connecticut Warblers, 
