. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . North America,from the southern parts of the British Provinces,southward; very common in suitable localitiesthroughout its range. The Coot bears some resemblance to theFlorida Gallinule, but is somewhat larger,its bill is white with a blackish band aboutthe middle, and each toe has a scalloped^L web. They inhabit the same marshes andJ, sloughs that are used by the Rails and Gal-j linules as nesting places, and they have thesame retiring habit
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . North America,from the southern parts of the British Provinces,southward; very common in suitable localitiesthroughout its range. The Coot bears some resemblance to theFlorida Gallinule, but is somewhat larger,its bill is white with a blackish band aboutthe middle, and each toe has a scalloped^L web. They inhabit the same marshes andJ, sloughs that are used by the Rails and Gal-j linules as nesting places, and they have thesame retiring habits, skulking through thegrass to avoid observation, rather than fly-ing. Their nests are either floating pilesof decayed vegetation, or are built of deadrushes in clumps of rushes on the generally build in large colonies. Theeggs number from six to sixteen and havefinely specked all over the surface with blackish. Size 136 SHORE BIRDS. Order IX. LIMICOL^PHALAROPES. Family PHALAROPODIDAE Phalaropes are small Plover-like birds, but with lobate webbed feet, similarto those of the Grebes and Coots. 222. Red Phalarope. Phalaropus Greenish buff Range.—Northern Hemisphere, breeding in thefar north, and migrating to the middle portionsof the United States, chiefly on the coasts. The Red Phalarope during the breeding seasonhas the underparts wholly reddish brown; theyare very rarely seen in the United States in thisdress, however for it is early changed for a suitof plain gray and species has a muchstouter bill than the twofollowing; it is about nineinches in length. All thelhalaropes are good swim-mers, and this species, es-pecially, is often found inlarge flocks off the coast,floating on the surface ofthe water; they feed largely upon small marineinsects. Nests in hollows on the ground, linedwith a few grasses. The eggs are three or fourin number, generally of a greenish buff color,spotted and blotched with brown and —Myvates, Icelan
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