. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. WORTH AMERICAN BTRDS. 129 This bird closely resembles our American Coot, but its average size is slightly larger. It is a common resident south of middle England, and in the summer is found breeding in the numerous lochs throughout Scotland. Its habits in all re- spects are like those of the American bird. The nest is built in close proximity to water, on islands, borders of lakes, ponds and rivers. It is generally placed among and attached to flags, reeds or rushes. It is large and roughly made of plants and vegetable matter. The eggs ar
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. WORTH AMERICAN BTRDS. 129 This bird closely resembles our American Coot, but its average size is slightly larger. It is a common resident south of middle England, and in the summer is found breeding in the numerous lochs throughout Scotland. Its habits in all re- spects are like those of the American bird. The nest is built in close proximity to water, on islands, borders of lakes, ponds and rivers. It is generally placed among and attached to flags, reeds or rushes. It is large and roughly made of plants and vegetable matter. The eggs are from six or seven to ten or even fourteen In number, pale, dull buff, or sfone-color, spotted with rust-colored brownish-black and purp- lish-gray. The average size of a large series is 220. European Coot, 321. AMERICAN COOT. Fulica americana Gmel. Geog. Dist.—Whole of North America; south to Mexico, Central and South America and West Indies; north to Alaska, occasionally to Greenland. Well known as the Mud Hen, and in some sections the Crow Duck. This is the water fowl that young sportsmen persist in shooting as a game bird, but at a riper age he does not "hanker" after its flesh. It is easily known by its slate-colored plumage, white or flesh^colored bill, marked with reddish-black near the end and at the base of frontal plate, greenish legs and carmine iris. The Coot is a good swim- mer and diver, having lobate feet like the phalaropes and grebes. It can also move swiftly through tangled grass and aquatic plants. On almost any large or small body of water sufficiently secluded and whose margins are overgrown with reeds and rushes, or on sluggish streams, swamps, pools or reedy sloughs, there you will find the Coot during the breeding season. The nest is made of dead reeds and grasses, placed on the ground, just out of the water or on floating vegetation; the flags on which it rests being broken down, rises and falls with the water. Some times im- me
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