. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. Pale buff. THE BIRD BOOK 219. Florida Gallinule. Gallinula galeala. Range—Temperate North America, from New tngland. Manitoba and California, southward laKt fiT^'.n h ^°'?'"«"1, bird of similar size to the last ( Inches long), with flanks streaked with They- ne«t in" *" "'" ^'"' ''''^''' "'"*« '^''^^"'>' colonies In marshes and swamps, build- ing thei
. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. Pale buff. THE BIRD BOOK 219. Florida Gallinule. Gallinula galeala. Range—Temperate North America, from New tngland. Manitoba and California, southward laKt fiT^'.n h ^°'?'"«"1, bird of similar size to the last ( Inches long), with flanks streaked with They- ne«t in" *" "'" ^'"' ''''^''' "'"*« '^''^^"'>' colonies In marshes and swamps, build- ing their nests like those of the Purple Galllnule. The eggs, too, are similar, but larger and slightly duller. Size Data.— Monte- zuma marshes, Florida, June 6, 1894. Eleven eggs. Nest of dead flaggs, floating In two feet of water. Collector, Robert Warwick. [220.] EiTRoPEAN Coot. Fulica atra. A European species very similar to the next and only casually found in Greenland. Nesting the same as our species. 221. Coot. Fulica americana. Range.—Whole of temperate North America. from the southern parts of the British Provinces southward; very common In suitable localities throughout its range. .,,^'1! ^°°^ b®*""^ *"""« resemblance to the Horlda Gallinule, but Is somewhat larger its bin is white with a blackish band about the middle, and each toe has a scalloped web. They Inhabit the same marshes and sloughs that are used by the Rails and Gal- llnules as nesting places, and thev have the same retiring habits, skulking through the grass to avoid observation, rather than flv ing. Their nests are either floating piles of decayed vegetation, or are built of dead rushes in dumps of ruslies on the banks They generally build in large colonies. The MoTi'^aV"'""''""''' «"^'^ ^''^ "^"'°-^^hirrf:'.^e;°itrair "siir. Florida Oalllnule. Coot. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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