habits of the rails, 1875 May 7 pomp of a turkey cock uttering all the time that Agawam about referred to. When the object of his attentions apparently becoming tired of them would Shulk off again pursued closely as before. Often when the water became too deep for wading she would prove her attentio lover following pretty in her wake At length becoming tired of watching all this, and wanting the pair badly to mount, I fired and killed the D^, wounding, and death swift shot fleeing, the 9. The song of Porzana Carolina is widely the same previously noted. There are also at least three other notes; the cockling on, cutter, cutter, cutter: a very rapidly enunciated cry of eight or ten syllables, descending the scale as rapidly as almost to merit the appellation of a trill; and a single sharp, quick keep, the cry of alarm used indiscriminately by both sexes; by the young flocks in autumn. Rallus Visigraeums has only two calls that I am sure of at present; the first 9 Which I think is the song of the 8 [illegible] is a quick, rasping note of a sound repeated a number of times in succession and utterly indescribable. I can compare it only to a certain complaining sound made by a pig when hungry. The other is