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differently and simplified it, he would have arrived at the same 

 results with me. As it is, he gives the reader, not a simple for- 

 mula, but a table. His work came to my knowledge after I had 

 worked out and presented my formula before the Biological 

 Club and the same has been useful to me only in suggesting a 

 simplification of the equation used for my starting point. 

 Biological Hall, Ohio State University. 



THE PURPLE GALLINULE IN OHIO. 



James S. Hine. 



Since not over half a dozen specimens of this bird have been 

 recorded for Ohio, any additional records of captured specimens 

 are of interest. A fine male was brought to the museum a few 

 weeks ago by F. B. Shuller who furnished the following data 

 regarding two specimens shot at Hamilton, Ohio, by Chas. 

 Golden: 



Mr. Golden says: "As I recall, it was the first part of April, 

 1897, while strolling along a marshy place known as Old River, 

 that I noticed a bird upon a decayed log which was lying in the 

 water. The river is about fifty feet wide and the water four 

 inches deep at the point where the observation was made and is 

 a fine feeding ground for waders. My attention was attracted 

 by what I first thought was a piece of red paper which the bird 

 was carrying in its mouth. I threw a stick and the bird flew and 

 alighted on a branch of a large elm tree overhanging the water 

 and between myself and the sun where I could see the bright 

 colors of its bill, and the beautiful purple plumage." 



"A gun was procured and the bird shot and presented to 

 Mr. W. B. Shuler who had it mounted by Mr. Geo. Sutter. The 

 following March while duck hunting near the same locality, it 

 was my good fortune to shoot another purple gallinule which I 

 believe Mr. Sutter now has in his possession. The day on which 

 the second specimen was taken was very disagreeable with 

 occasional snow flurries which are characteristic of this season of 

 the year." 



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