. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. VIRGINIA KAIL 279 the summer. Here it may be constantly heard and occa- sionally seen, picking its way along the edge of the marsh or between the tussocks of sedge, or, when startled, flying a short distance with weak flight and dangling legs, and then dropping into the grass. It walks with a constant upright tilt of its short tail, thus exposing the buffy under tail-
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. VIRGINIA KAIL 279 the summer. Here it may be constantly heard and occa- sionally seen, picking its way along the edge of the marsh or between the tussocks of sedge, or, when startled, flying a short distance with weak flight and dangling legs, and then dropping into the grass. It walks with a constant upright tilt of its short tail, thus exposing the buffy under tail- coverts. The notes of the Carolina Eail, heard most commonly at the approach of dusk and all through the evening, and also at intervals through the day, are a long frog-like cry, resem- bling the syllable kur-wee', and a whinny. The birds utter also, when startled, a cry like the syl- lable kuk; a stone thrown into the cat-tails in late summer or '" fall is almost sure to provoke this cry. Its short yellow hill shows conspicuously against the black about its base, and distinguishes it from the Virginia Eail, which has a long dark bill. Virginia Rail. Rallus virginianiis Bill Ad.—Top of head and back rich brown, streaked with black; sides of head asb-gray; line from bill to eye white, above a black- ish stripe; part of the wingst rich reddish-brown ; under parts a warm brown; lower belly black, barred witb white ; bill long, slightly curved. Im. —Upper parts much as in adult; throat and line down the middle of the lower parts whitish; rest of under parts blackish. Nest, a platform of grass or sedge in a tuft of grass or sedge. Eggs, pale buffy-white, spotted and speckled with reddish-brown. The Virginia Eail is a summer resident of New York and New England, common in the southern and central por- tions of the region. It arrives in April, and stays till Octo-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enh
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