ORDER PALUDICOL&. Sr 
[B 561, C 473, R 578, C 685.] 
Geoc. Dist.— South Atlantic and Gulf States, casually northward 
to Maine, New York, Wisconsin, etc. ; south throughout the West: 
Indies, Mexico, Central America and northern South America to: 
Brazil. 
Genus GALLINULA Brisson. 
Gallinula Briss. Orn. VI. 1760, 2. Type, Fulica chloropus LINN, 
219. Gallinula galeata (Licur.). 
Florida Gallinule. 
Crex galeata Licut. Verz. Doubl. 1823, 80. 
Gallinula galeata Bonap. Am. Orn. IV. 1832, 128. 
[B 560, C 472, R579, C 685.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Temperate and tropical America, from Canada to 
Brazil and Chili. 
SUBFAMILY FULICINZ. Coors. 
Genus PULICA Linneus. 
fulica Linn. 8. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 152. Type, & atra Linn. 
[220.] Fulica atra Linn. 
European Coot. 
fulica atra Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1759;; B52: 
[B—,C—,R—,C 885.] 
Groce. Dist.— Northern parts of the eastern hemisphere in gen- 
eral; accidental in Greenland. 
221. Fulica americana Gwaet. 
American Coot. 
fulica americana GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 704. 
[B 559, C 474, R 580, C 686. | 
Geoc. Dist.— North America, from Greenland and Alaska south- 
ward to the West Indies and Veragua. 
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