150 
1868. 
Sopt. jf. 
Oct. 9. 
Gallinula galeata. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
A young male shot by Deane in the pond hole at the 
foot of Vassal Lane. 
Two sv/'iraming in a ditch at the pond-hole at the 
foot of Vassal Lane. I shot one and wounded the other. 
It rose with dangling legs, flying like a Rail but rather 
more swiftly, and finally dropping into the bushes. 
The one killed proved a female. 
