. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 2IO BIRDS OF AMERICA white bars ; lores and a line through and back of eye, dusky; wing-quills and tail, dusky with some white spots. Downy Young: Black. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: A very well-made and deeply cupped structure of fine grasses and weed stems; well concealed in a depression of the ground. Eggs : 6 to 9, white, sparsely spotted with small chestnut dots. Distribution.— Eastern North .'Kmerica ; breeds from southern Ontario and Massachusetts south to Kansas, Illinois, and South Carolina; winters from Texas east through the Gulf States and sout
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 2IO BIRDS OF AMERICA white bars ; lores and a line through and back of eye, dusky; wing-quills and tail, dusky with some white spots. Downy Young: Black. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: A very well-made and deeply cupped structure of fine grasses and weed stems; well concealed in a depression of the ground. Eggs : 6 to 9, white, sparsely spotted with small chestnut dots. Distribution.— Eastern North .'Kmerica ; breeds from southern Ontario and Massachusetts south to Kansas, Illinois, and South Carolina; winters from Texas east through the Gulf States and south to Jamaica and Guatemala; casual in Bermuda. The Black Rail runs swiftly, like a mouse, tlirough the herbage, and seldom flies, although in migration it has reached the Bermuda Islands. Gosse quotes a Mr. Robinson who says that in Jamaica it is so foolish as to hide its head and cock up its tail, thinking itself safe, when it is easily taken alive. Edward Howe Fdrbusii, in Game Birds, ]]^Ud-Fo%d and Shore Birds. The Black Rail, the smallest Rail in America, is believed to be a very rare bird in New England, where it has been recorded only from Maine, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, in which States it possibly breeds. So far as our present infor- mation goes, Massachusetts appears to be near the northern limit of its breeding range on the Atlantic coast, but it may go farther north. Records are received with caution, as the black, downy young of larger Rails are mistaken for Black Rails. Wayne appears to be the first obser\-er who has actually seen the female Black- Rail on her nest in the United States, and re- corded it. The nest was in an oat field, and the standing grain, where the nest was, had been cut. The bird is so secretive that, as related by Wayne, two men and a dog searched four hours for the male in the oat field before it could be secured, although it was calling incessaiitly. This bird may not be as rare as it is C"Urtcsy ot Am. Mus. Psat. Hist
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