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San Bias); Tamaulipas (Matamoras) ; and Texas (Brownsville and 

 Harris County), 



Winter range. — The purple gallinule is resident thi'oughout most of 

 its breeding range, withdraNnng at this season, only from the northern 

 portion. At this season it is found north to Florida (Tallahassee, 

 Royal Palm Hammock, and probably Lake Harris); and Texas 

 (Brownsville) . 



Migration. — An early date for their arrival in South Carolina is 

 Charleston, April 21, 1908. 



Casual records. — The species has on numerous occasions been taken 

 or observed at points far outside of its normal range. Several were 

 recorded in Bermuda in April 1849, April 1850, and one on May 30, 

 1851, and one on October 22, 1851. Continental North American 

 records include North CaroUna (Currituck Sound, November 12, 1919, 

 and Raleigh, June 3, 1887) ; Virginia (Cobb Island, May 1891) ; Penn- 

 sylvania, (Cumberland County, February 19, 1895); New Jersey 

 (Cape May, May 10, 1907, and May, 1892, Tuckerton, prior to 1894, 

 Longport, May 23, 1898, and Ventnor, May 1902) ; New York (Middle 

 Island, summer of 1879, and near Flatlands); Connecticut (Middle- 

 town about 1855, and again in 1877, Stamford, spring of 1884, and 

 Bridgeport, June 26, 1903) ; Rhode Island (Westerly, about 1857, and 

 Seaconnet, June 8, 1900) ; Massachusetts (Randolph, May 24, 1904, 

 near Rockport, April 12, 1875, Boxford, June 1897, Chatham, April 

 1890, Sandwich, April 1902, Worcester, May 30, 1887, Swampscott, 

 April 22, 1852, Plymouth, April 9, 1892, and Cape Cod, April 1870); 

 New Hampshire (Rye, and Dover) ; Maine (Soutli Lewiston, April 

 11, 1897, Winter Harbor, November 7, 1899, Calais, 1869, and 

 Boothbay, September 1877) ; New Brunswick (St. John, April 6, 1881, 

 and Gagetown, September, 1880); Nova Scotia (HaUfex, April, 1889, 

 January 30, 1870, January 19, 1896, February 1870, and May 23, 

 1880); Quebec (near Quebec, about September 15, 1909); Missomi 

 (St. Charles, April 22, 1877); lUinois (opposite St. Louis, April 18, 

 1877, Chicago, May 1866, near Coal City, April 24, 1900, and Wil- 

 mington, April 26, 1909); Indiana (Richmond, March 27, 1918); 

 Ohio (Big Miami River, March 31, 1877, Sandusky Bay, April 28, 

 1896, Cedar Point, September 2, 1894, Lakeside, November 10, 1917, 

 and Circleville, May 10, 1877); Michigan (Ann Arbor, August 12, 

 1879, and St. Clair Flats, about 1883); Ontario (Guelph, about 1894 

 and tlie mouth of the Rouge River, April 8, 1892); Wisconsin (Mil- 

 waukee, about 1860, also at Racine and near Janesvillc); Kansas 

 (Douglas County, April 26, 1896, and April 18, 1909, and Manhattan, 

 April 14, 1893); Arizona (near Tucson, October 20, 1887, and Tomb- 

 stone, June 1904); Colorado (Florence, June 17, 1911); and Utah 

 (Haynes Lake, November 23, 1924). 



