. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. XLII. BAILS, GALLINULES, ETC. 259 9. Purple Gallinule (218. lonbrnismartinica). — A short-tailed, long-legged, brilliantly purplish-blue, chicken-like, marsh bird with very long toes, enabling it to walk on the floating leaves. The back itself is a shining olive-green, the under tail coverts white, bill with much red, and the legs yellow. The young has much brownish on the back, white mottlings below and bill without red. Length, 13 ; wing, 7^ (6|-7|) ; tail,
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. XLII. BAILS, GALLINULES, ETC. 259 9. Purple Gallinule (218. lonbrnismartinica). — A short-tailed, long-legged, brilliantly purplish-blue, chicken-like, marsh bird with very long toes, enabling it to walk on the floating leaves. The back itself is a shining olive-green, the under tail coverts white, bill with much red, and the legs yellow. The young has much brownish on the back, white mottlings below and bill without red. Length, 13 ; wing, 7^ (6|-7|) ; tail, 2J; tarsus, 2f ; oulmen, If South Atlantic and Gulf States ; breeding as far north as southern Illinois and South Carolina, straying rarely to Maine and Wisconsin, and wintering from Florida to Brazil. 10. Florida Gallinule (219. Gallinula galecita).—A common, southern, dark slate-colored, chicken-like, marsh bird with long toes like the last spe- cies. The front half of the bird is nearly black and the rest brownish, except the white under tail cov- erts, edge of wing, and streaks on the flanks. The bill is red and the legs are yellow in life. (Com- mon Gallinule; Eed- billed Mud-hen.) Length, 13J ; wing, 7 (6^-7^) ; tail, 2|; tarsus, 2J ; culmen, If. Tem- perate and tropical America; breeding north to Canada and wintering from the Gulf States to Brazil. 11. American Coot (221. Ftdica americd,na).—A common, large, noisy, short-tailed, short-billed, long-legged, dark slate- colored, swimming bird, with white under tail coverts, white bill, and blackish head and neck. The long toes have broad, scalloped lobes along their edges. When swimming, this bird bobs its head in a peculiar manner; when disturbed, it partly flies and partly swims just over the surface of the. Ploiida (jdliunle. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly
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