fil4 OHNITIIOLOGY. 



sloufilis noar Sacramento, where it wii.s touiid in company with the Coot, or 

 " White-l)ine<l Mud-hen" (FiiUca amcrkana). It was not seen in the Inte- 

 rior, where the latter bii"d was extremel)' numerous. 



List of gpcdmens. 



40, 9 ad.; Sacramento, California, June I.?, ISCT. 13— Jl— C^'— .li—U—l^u'— 

 IJ — 2'\ — IJ. Bill and frontal platt', l)rifilit veinons -tsearlet ; ti[> of 1)111, abruptly, jel- 

 lowisli-green ; iris, brown; tarsal scutelhu, bright jellowish-yieen, scutelhe of tlic toes, 

 deeper green ; knees, and joints of toes, fine ashy-blue; upper half of tibia, all n)und, 

 bright scarlet. 



FULICA AMERICANA. 

 Anioi'icnn 4;oot. 



(Si'-ych-ch of tlic Hhoshones.) 



Fulica amerlcana, (jMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, 17SS, 704. — Cassin, iu Baird's Birds 

 N. Am., 1S5S, 751.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 18.50, No. ouO.— CoUKS, Key, 

 1872, 275; Check List, 187;$, No. 474; Birds N.W., 1874, 541.— Uensuaw, 

 1875, 4G9. 



The Coot, or "White-billed Mud-hen," as it is sometimes called, was 

 extremely numerous in all extensive marshes, both in the Sacramento Valley 

 and eastward of the Sierra Nevada. Iu the latter region it was resident, 

 though most abundant in sunmier. 



List of specimens. 



841, ? ad.f Camp lit, Ruby Valley, Nevada, July 15, 1868, 15.^205— (?)—C. 

 Bill, opaque milk-white (purest basally), with a very faint lilaceous glow in the middle 

 portion, assuming terminally a pale bluish-c.ast; siiot at base of frontal plate, and near 

 tij) of each mandible, dark heimtie-.sepia, ea(;li spot bordered anteriorly with dragon's- 

 blood-red ; iris, carmine; prevailing hue of tibia, tarsi, and toes, delicate pale ashy- 

 blue, but this overlaid on tarsi (all round) and on upper surface of toes (except on 

 joints) with bright yellowish-greeu ; claws, black. 



' To posterior eud of froptal plate. 



