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14. Gallinula galeata (Licht.). FLoRrpA GALLINULE. 
An uncommon and local summer resident.* In addition to the 
localities named below, it has been reported breeding at Cape 
Cod?" 
April 29 to October 9. 
Cambridge: Uncommon summer resident. Nantucket: One instance. 
Springfield: “Very rare summer resident.’? Probably breeds. Wellesley: 
“Rare summer resident.” 
15. Ionornis martinica (Linn.). PURPLE GALLINULE. 
An occasional visitant from the south, having been taken once 
in the breeding season. The records are: Stoneham, one bird 
noted November 27, 1837 ;* Swampscott, one taken April 22, 1852 ;3 
Cape Cod, one obtained by Mr. William Brewster in April, 1870; * 
Nantucket, one taken at Hummock Pond in October, 1872 ;° 
Rockport, one shot by Robert Wendel, April 12, 1875 ;° Chatham, 
one seen in flesh in the Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, in April, 
1890, which had been caught in a trap;* /7ymouth, a female taken 
April 9 [?], 1892, by C. C. Wood ;7 Boxford, one caught in June, 
1897 ; “another, supposed to be of the same species, and the mate, 
were seen at the pond.” 
16. Fulica americana Gmel. AMERICAN Coot. 
An uncommon migrant, rare in spring and perhaps formerly a 
summer resident. 
March 29 to April 25 ; September 19 to November 7. 
Amherst: ‘‘Occurs occasionally.” Berkshire: ‘Transient visitant in 
the autumn.” Bristol County: ‘‘Common fall transient visitant to the 
ponds and rivers along the coast, rarer in spring.’ Brookline: “ For- 
merly.... not an uncommon migrant.” Cambridge: Transient visitant; 
rare in April, common September to November. Cohasset: ‘‘ Rare in 
* Brewster; Auk, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Jan., 1891, pp. 1-7. 
1 Miller; Auk, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Jan., 1891, pp. 118, 119. 
? Peabody ; Report on Birds of Mass., 1839, p. 258. 
3 Putnam ; Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. I, 1856, p. 224. 
4 Baird, Brewer and Ridgway ; Water Birds, Vol. I, 1884, p. 385. 
> Brewer ; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XX, 1879, p. 106. 
© Whitman; Amer. Nat., Vol, 1X, No. 10, Oct., 1875, p. 573: 
* Wood; O. and O., Vol. XVII, No. 5, May, 1892, p. 72. 
8 Farley ; Auk, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Apr., 1901, p. Igo. 
