. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . g its haunts amid the rankmarsh-grass and the rushes only when impelled by the migratoryinstinct, and then the bird steals off under cover of the darkness. In an interesting contribution to The Auk, Mr. Brewstertells us that the movements of this Gallinule when walking or swim-ming is pecuharly graceful, but when on the wing its appearance isludicrously awkward. The notes of the bird are numerous and of great variety of toneand compass, varying from a harsh scream to a low hen-like cluck. Speaking generally, writes Mr. Brewste
. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . g its haunts amid the rankmarsh-grass and the rushes only when impelled by the migratoryinstinct, and then the bird steals off under cover of the darkness. In an interesting contribution to The Auk, Mr. Brewstertells us that the movements of this Gallinule when walking or swim-ming is pecuharly graceful, but when on the wing its appearance isludicrously awkward. The notes of the bird are numerous and of great variety of toneand compass, varying from a harsh scream to a low hen-like cluck. Speaking generally, writes Mr. Brewster, the notes were all loud,harsh, and discordant, and nearly all curiously hen-like. He adds, I certainly know of no other bird which utters so many differentsounds. Some of the notes are like a drawling kee-ar-r, kree-ar-r jor more rapidly uttered they produce a sound like kr-r-r-r-r, andare varied with kruc-kriic, or a low kloc-kloc. At times a note liketicket-ticket-tickei-ticket is heard, and again a single abrupt explosivekup like the cry of a startled RED PHALAROPE. GRAY PHALAROPE. SEA GOOSE. WHALE FULICARIUS. Char. Female in summer : above, black, the feathers of the neck andback with a rufous or bujff margin ; wings gray, tipped with white ; cheekswhite; bill orange ; under parts reddish chestnut; legs and feet yellow ; toeslobed. Male : duller, white on cheek less defined, and head streakedwith rufous or buff. In winter the rufous tints disappear and the plumageof the upper parts becomes gray and the under parts white, while the billturns black. Length about S)4 inches. A^es^. On a knoll in the spongy margin of a pond or saline pool, — aslight depression in the peat or moss, scantily lined with grass, moss, orleaves. ■^^^^- 3~4 > olive buff or sea green, spotted with dark brown and pur-plish brown; X The Flat-Billed or Red Phalarope inhabits the whole ArcticCircle during summer, where, in the security of solitude, itpasses the
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