. Feathered game of the Northeast . The Yellow Eail seems to be quite hardy,staying here after the other species have de-serted us and the ice has made in the pond-holes of the marsh. The writer has shot themwhen there had been severe cold for Novem-ber and after a snowfall of three or four inches. He is a beautiful little bird,—his body colora golden yellow, the feathers of his back andwing coverts jet black with yellow edges, andhere and there speckled with tiny white breast is a deep golden yellow, growingpaler below. Flanks and inside of wingsbarred with black and white. Crissum
. Feathered game of the Northeast . The Yellow Eail seems to be quite hardy,staying here after the other species have de-serted us and the ice has made in the pond-holes of the marsh. The writer has shot themwhen there had been severe cold for Novem-ber and after a snowfall of three or four inches. He is a beautiful little bird,—his body colora golden yellow, the feathers of his back andwing coverts jet black with yellow edges, andhere and there speckled with tiny white breast is a deep golden yellow, growingpaler below. Flanks and inside of wingsbarred with black and white. Crissum goldenyellow. Length about six inches, extent ten orthereabout. This is the smallest of the railsordinarily found in New England, though thatextremely rare straggler here, the black rail, iseven smaller. The Yellow Rail is a more inveterate skulkerand, if possible, harder to flush than any otherof the family. Out of the first six specimenswhich the writer obtained five were capturedby the dog and the sixth only escaped the same. LU u o u THE JBLACK EAIL 239 fate by being shot almost off the dogs nose ashe drove it up from the ground. In form and habits the Yellow Rail is verysimilar to the sora, but he dwells in the drierlevels of the marsh and in the meadow lands,where the shorter grasses offer less impedimentto his feebler powers. His food is principallyof seeds, and his flesh (what there is of it) isequally as good as that of the sora. THE BLACK RAIL. (Porzana jamaicensis.) Of all the feathered dwellers in or visitors toNew England this is the rarest. There arevery few records of its capture in our fact, few are taken anywhere in the UnitedStates, though it may be more common than isgenerally supposed, since, because of its smallsize and retiring disposition it might easily beoverlooked. Its range lies mostly to the south-ward of the United States. The bird is morecommon in the West Indies, Central and SouthAmerica, where it visits as far south as Chile. In leng
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