142 
1868. 
Porzana Carolina. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
(Sept.12) One feeding on a sail island, walking in a slow, 
pompous manner, moving its head like a Pigeon and jerking 
the tail rapidly. 
Oet. 7. 
“ 10 . 
1869. 
May 5. 
*• 29. 
1870. 
May 3. 
May. 24. 
June 13, 
{I 
• 18. i 
Oct. 21. 
1871. 
Apr. 6,'? 
“ 19. 
Oct. 16. 
One, 
m 
Heard several. 
Nest with thirteen nearly fresh eggs; in a tussock 
nearly surrounded by water. 
Heard numbers in the swamps this evening. They 
have doubtless been here somatti^e. 
One nest with seven fresh eggs, another with four; 
both birds loft their nest on my approach as I found 
their eggs were v/arm. 
Nest thirteen eggs, six fresh, remainder well advan¬ 
ced. 
Nest with two eggs from which the young birds were 
struggling to escape; remainder of brood running about 
near the nest; parent no v^here to be seen. 
Shot an adult male which was so encased in fat he 
could hardly fly. 
One heard in the swamps{By Hoabo and Garter). ? 
A male singing. 
Six seen. 
1874. 
June 24, 
A female in the Fresh Pond swamps v/’ith a large 
brood of young which were calling continuously for food 
in a harsh querulous voice. When the mother discovered 
me, she uttered a sharp cry which silenced them at once, 
although after a moment or two they began calling again.* 
I shot one which was squatting on a floating lily-pad. 
It had a blood-red knob or protuberence on the ridge of 
the culmen near its base this shrunk away soon after 
death. The remaining young were led off by the mother 
into a thicket of briars where I could not follow them. 
Sept.30. 
Shot five in the Fresh Pond swamps . 
