. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . 80. Florida Gallinule Sora ; Carolina Kail. Porzana Bill .80 Ad. —Top of head brown, a blackish stripe through the centre;back, wings, and tail brown, streaked with black and a littlewhite; sides of head, line over eye, and breast ash-gray; fore-head, region about the base of the bill, middle of throat, andbreast black ; belly white ; bill short, yellow. Im. — Upper partsdark brown, mi
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . 80. Florida Gallinule Sora ; Carolina Kail. Porzana Bill .80 Ad. —Top of head brown, a blackish stripe through the centre;back, wings, and tail brown, streaked with black and a littlewhite; sides of head, line over eye, and breast ash-gray; fore-head, region about the base of the bill, middle of throat, andbreast black ; belly white ; bill short, yellow. Im. — Upper partsdark brown, mixed on the back with black and a little white ;throat white ; breast washed with buff ; sides dark, barred withwhite ; belly white. Nest, a platform of grass or sedge in a tuft of grass or , brownish-buff, sparsely spotted with brown and purplish-gray. The Carolina Rail is a common summer resident of mostof New York and New England, though rather rare in thevicinity of New York city. It arrives in April, and leavesin October. Though common in suitable localities, it isonly found where there are extensive marshes, cat-tailswamps, or meadows which retain much water all through. VIRGINIA KAIL 279 the summer. Here it may be constantly heard and occa-sionally seen, picking its way along the edge of the marshor between the tussocks of sedge, or, when startled, flying ashort distance with weak flight and dangling legs, and thendropping into the grass. It walks with a constant uprighttilt of its short tail, thus exposing the buffy under tail-coverts. The notes of the Carolina Rail, heard most commonlyat the approach of dusk and all through the evening, andalso at intervals through the day,are a long frog-like cry, resem-bling the syllable kur-iuee1, anda whinny. The birds utter also,when startled, a cry like the syl-lable kuk; a stone thrown intothe cat-tails in late summer orfall is almost sure to provoke this cry. Its short yellow bill shows conspicuously against thebla
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