142 RECORDS VOLUME XIU, ocT, 1920. 
Little Whale Key, May 7, 1915. A pair 
on this key. | | 
Petit Key May 8, 1915, <A pair on this 
key. Started one irom deep tangled grass 
which was about breast high. It rose nearly 
a hundred vards away, flew a few feet, and 
dropped into the grasson the margin of the 
scrub. Another started almost at my feet, 
fiew a little way, and alighted on some fal- 
len grass to look back inquisitivly, but upon 
hearing the click of the hammer of my gun 
on the cap of a shell that failed to eA eds 
rose and flew into the scrub. 
Judging from these notes, it is highly 
probable that the Cory Rail has a general 
distribution throughout the Bahamas, inhab- 
iting both mangrove swampsand drv scrub. 
While at times a number may congregate, 
my experience with them, as seen, is, that 
thev live in isolated pairs. The notes are 
the usual rail-like craking to which is often 
added a peculiar drum-like boom repeated 
two or three times. | 
