CRYIXG BIRDS. 213 



in air. Interior of N. A. from the Fur 

 Country to Fla., Tex., Mex. and from 0. 

 to Col. Not now found in Fla. 



CRYING BIRDS. 



Bill longer than head; neck and legs, 

 long; wings of medium length but broad; 

 tail, short. Color, dull. Sexes, similar. 



Fiir. 164 



Coot. 



174. LIMPKIN. 



Length, 26. brown streaked very dis- 

 tinctly with white; throat, white; bill and 

 feet, brown, fig. 158. Partly nocturnal, 

 occurring on the borders of swamps. Cries, 

 harsh and discordant; when alarmed gives 

 chuckling notes, the head in jerked back 

 and forward and the tail held erect; runs 

 among bushes with swiftness. Food chiefly 

 the animals of fresh water mollusks. Nests 



