. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 219- Florida Gallinule. Gallinula galeata. Range—Temperate North America, from NewEngland, Manitoba and California, southward. A grayish colored bird of similar size to thelast (13 inches long), with flanks streaked withwhite, and with the bill and crown plate nest in colonies in . _^ marshes andswamps, build-ing their nestslike those ofthe PurpleGallinule. Theeggs, too, aresimilar, butlarger andslightly

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. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 219- Florida Gallinule. Gallinula galeata. Range—Temperate North America, from NewEngland, Manitoba and California, southward. A grayish colored bird of similar size to thelast (13 inches long), with flanks streaked withwhite, and with the bill and crown plate nest in colonies in . _^ marshes andswamps, build-ing their nestslike those ofthe PurpleGallinule. Theeggs, too, aresimilar, butlarger andslightly — Monte-zuma marshes, Florida, June 6, 1894. Eleveneggs. Nest of dead flaggs, floating in two feet ofwater. Collector, Robert Pale buff. ^ !)! [220.] European Coot. Falica atra. A European species very similar to the next,and only casually found in Greenland. Nestingthe same as our species. Flo rida

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