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breedsj "not uncommon on Portage Lake, Keweenaw Point " (Kneeland); • incubation 

 and laying conterminous, so that hatching continvxes for days " (B. W. Swales); "common 

 at Mackinac Island " (S. E. White); " nests abundantly at Plymouth, Wayne Co." (Jas. B. 

 Purdy); "breeds abundantly in Saginaw marshes" (N. A. Eddy); Mr. Jerome Trombley 

 finds it breeding in Monroe county; I have taken the eggs abundantly at Saginaw; 

 nests in June, on ground, in bog or meadow; eggs five to fourteen, very rarely to 

 twenty, drab, with yellowish tint, darker and with larger spots than those of the Vir- 

 ginia Rail; often in flocks; excellent game bird, though not good shooting as they are 

 slow to take wing; "I have taken twenty eggs from one nest. The bird commences to 

 sit as soon as the first egg is laid, so the eggs are at all stages of incubation " (J. B. 

 Purdy). 



tl2-215-(680). Porzana uftveboracensis (GmeZ.). Yellow Rail; Yellow Crake. 



Rare; "probably breeds " (Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); reported in Michigan (Forest 

 and Stream, Vol. XXV, p. 347); see Butler's Birds of Indiana; "summer resident" 

 (Dr. J. B. Steere). 



Subfamily GALLINULIN^. Gallinules. 



Genus GALL'INDLA Bbiss. 



J>3-219-(684). trallinnla galeata (iic/i^.). * Florida Gallinule. 



Common; '"Hillsdale Co." (A. H. Boies); Mr. Boies thinks they migrate at night, 

 but not in flocks; " common at Saginaw " (Miles' Birds of Michigan, p 231); '• breeds at 

 Plymouth "(J. B. Purdy); "have seen thousands at St. Clair Flats" (Dr. W. C. Brown- 

 ell); taken at the college; breeds; we have eggs in the museum taken near Grand Ledge; 

 "many nests found in Kalamazoo Co." (Dr. M. Gibbs); nests and eggs as in the follow 

 ing species: a fine table bird. 



Gfnus FULICA Linn. 



Frontal Shield of Coot. 



94-22 1-(686). Fulica americana (?me/. * American Coot; Coot; Mud Hen. 



Very cotnnion; throughout the entire State; "do not summer in Kalamazoo 



