. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . newas taken in West Newbury, in October, 1893, by J. W. Pray,and is now in the Peabody Academy Collection.^* This bird feeds on insects, worms, mollusks, snails andother small aquatic animals, and on fruit, seeds and othervegetable
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . newas taken in West Newbury, in October, 1893, by J. W. Pray,and is now in the Peabody Academy Collection.^* This bird feeds on insects, worms, mollusks, snails andother small aquatic animals, and on fruit, seeds and othervegetable productions. 1 Dutcher, William: Auk, 1893, p. 272. 2 Peabody, W. B. 0.: Report on the Ornithology of Mass., 1839, p. 258. 3 Putnam, F. W.: Proc. Essex Inst., 1856, Vol. 1, p. 224. * Baird, S. F., Brewer, T. M., and Ridgeway, R.: Water Birds, 1884, Vol. 1, p. 385. 5 Brewer, T. M.: Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1879, Vol. XX, p. 105. 6 Whitman, G. P.: Amer. Nat., October, 1875, Vol. LX., No. 10, p. 573. Farley, J. A.: Auk, 1901, p. 190. 8 Ornithologist and Oologist, May, 1892, Vol. XVII, No. 5, p. 72. 9 Auk, 1901, p. 398. 1 Townsend, C. W.: Memoirs of the Nuttall Orn. Club, the Birds of Essex County, Mass., No. 3,p. 161. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 219 FLORIDA GALLINULE {Gallinula galeata).Common or local names: Mud-hen; Red-billed Mud-hen; Length. — inches. Adult. — Head and neck blackish slate; body slate gray, brownish on theback and washed on the belly with whitish; under tail coverts white;bill and plate on forehead bright red, the former tipped with greenishyellow; edge of wing and a stripe on flank white; toes not lobed. Young. — Similar, but duller; whitish below; throat sometimes wholly white;bill and forehead brownish. Field Marks. — The plate of bright red on front of head, the red bill and awhite stripe on flank (sometimes covered or wanting) distinguish itfrom the Coot. Tail, when carried erect, shows a patch of white be-neath it. N
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