. Bird lore . has since been noted at one or two other similar localities inEastern Massachusetts, never earlier than May 18 nor later than June I have already published* a detailed account of my experience andimpressions relating to it, as well as my reasons for believing that it is the * Auk, xviii, No. 4, Oct., 1901, pp. 321-328. 54 Bird-Lore voice of the Little Black Rail,* it seems unnecessary to give, in this con-nection, anything more than the briefest description of its notes. They vary considerably in number, as well as somewhat in form andquality. The commonest forms are as fol
. Bird lore . has since been noted at one or two other similar localities inEastern Massachusetts, never earlier than May 18 nor later than June I have already published* a detailed account of my experience andimpressions relating to it, as well as my reasons for believing that it is the * Auk, xviii, No. 4, Oct., 1901, pp. 321-328. 54 Bird-Lore voice of the Little Black Rail,* it seems unnecessary to give, in this con-nection, anything more than the briefest description of its notes. They vary considerably in number, as well as somewhat in form andquality. The commonest forms are as follows: Kik-kik-kik, queeah, Kik-kik-kik, ki-queeah. Kik-ki-ki-ki, ki-queeah. Kic-kic, kic-kic, kic-kic, ktc-kic, ki-queeah. The kic-kic notes are similar to those uttered by the Virginia Rail whencalling to her young, but much louder. Although usually delivered inrather rapid succession, they are divided by distinct if short intervals intogroups of twos or threes, giving them the effect of being uttered with a. YELLOW RAIL. (One-half natural size) certain degree of hesitancy. The terminal queeah or ki-queeah is shrill andslightly tremulous, reminding one by turns of the rolling chirrup which achipmunk makes just as he darts into his hole or of the squealing crow ofa young rooster. All the notes, although not apparently very loud when * It has been since attributed, on what appears to me to be inconclusive evidence, to the Yellow Rail. Auk,xix, No. i, Jan., 1902, pp. 94. 95- Voices of a New England Marsh 55 one is near the spot where they are uttered, may be heard, under favorableconditions, at a distance of fully half a mile. Another equally mysterious bird which we hear occasionally in May orJune (but by no means every season) in the Fresh Pond marshes, andwhich we have some reasons for believing may be the King Rail, utters agrunting umpb, umpb, umpb, umph, usually deep and guttural, but sometimesrather harsh and vibrant, and not unlike the quacking of a hoarse-voicedDuck. The
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