. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. coots 369 Subfamily Coots. Number of species in North America 2; in Massachusetts 1. Bill and frontal plate somewhat as in gallinules ; form stouter; body depressed, wider than in rails and gallinules, and covered with dense down to resist water, as in ducks; feet lobed for swimming somewhat as in grebes and phalaropes. Fulica americana Gmelin. Coot. Other names: blue peter; blue marsh-hen; crow duck; crow-bill; pelick; puldoo; sea-crow; pond-hen; pond-crow; meadow-hen; water-hen. Plate 24. Description. — Bill s
. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. coots 369 Subfamily Coots. Number of species in North America 2; in Massachusetts 1. Bill and frontal plate somewhat as in gallinules ; form stouter; body depressed, wider than in rails and gallinules, and covered with dense down to resist water, as in ducks; feet lobed for swimming somewhat as in grebes and phalaropes. Fulica americana Gmelin. Coot. Other names: blue peter; blue marsh-hen; crow duck; crow-bill; pelick; puldoo; sea-crow; pond-hen; pond-crow; meadow-hen; water-hen. Plate 24. Description. — Bill short, pointed; forehead with more or less of a shield; feet with large lobes. Adults (sexes alike) : Head and neck blackish, sometimes small whitish spot below eye; general plumage bluish-slaty, lighter below; back and scapulars tinged olive; flight-feathers slate; wing edged nar- rowly white and secondaries tipped same, forming white bar which hardly shows on closed wing; primaries growing blackish at tips; region of vent black, which color extends in form of wedge over central under tail-coverts; outer under tail-coverts white, forming a V; bill whitish, tip horn color, banded near tip of upper mandible with chestnut, spot of same below it on lower mandible, edged below with yellow; shield on forehead "dark chestnut brown"; iris red; legs and feet yellowish- green ; lobes light leaden-gray. Young in juvenal plumage: Similar to adult but generally more olive and lighter above and more whitish below and bill even whiter, lacking spots; iris brown. Downy young: Blackish, with elongated, crinkled, bristly, orange feather-tips on throat, cheeks, neck, wings and back; „ p some hoary tips on under surface of body; bill orange-red, tipped black. Measurements. — Length to in.; spread to ; folded wing to ; tail to ; bill, tip to gape to ; tarsus to Weight 1 lb. to 22 oz. Molts. — Young bird appears to under
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