. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . ^ abundant insome localities. The nest is placed in a bunch of reeds or rushes, sometimes on smallbushes. The eggs are from four to six, pale bluish white. I have found as manyas a dozen nests of this species within a distance of fifty yards on some ofthe small Florida ponds, but it seems to be local, as many ponds in the samelocality, seemingly equalh suitable, did not contain a single

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