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age, having some blue feathers in the wings, a few long blue black 
plumes, and the back, neck and head much intermixed with grayish” 
(Bangs, 00a). 
Nycticorax nycticorax naevius (Bodd.). 
Black-crowned Night Heron. 
Accidental visitor. 
This heron is also a straggler to southern Labrador and has been 
once recorded from Lake Mistassini, August 6, 1885 (Macoun, ’00). 
Rallus virginianus Linn. 
Virginia Rail. 
Accidental visitor. 
The claim of this species to a place among the birds of Labrador 
rests on none too substantial a basis. The only record is that of 
Turner (’85) who writes that “a single specimen was taken in Hamil¬ 
ton Inlet a few years ago and submitted to M. Fortesque, esq. (of the 
Hudson Bay Company), who identified it beyond question.” 
Porzana Carolina (Linn.). 
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SORA. 
Accidental visitor. 
Dr. W. T. Grenfell has added this species to the list of Labrador 
birds, as he secured a specimen in Sandwich Bay in 1898. The skin 
was sent to Cambridge, England. 
Fulica americana Gmel. 
American Coot. 
Accidental visitor. 
That this species occasionally strays north into Labrador is attested 
by Turner who records that a specimen was shot about 1880 on a lake 
near Nain, and was described so accurately to him by several persons 
who saw the stuffed bird that he was enabled to identify it “ beyond 
