No. 32. 



Fulica americana. 



Principally of a dark bluish slate color slightly tinged about 

 the back with olive brown, the head and neck black or blackish. 

 Feathers beneath tail white ; wings narrowly edged with white, 

 the secondaries (viz., feathers growing from second bone of wing) 

 broadly tipped with the same ; also somewhat whitish on lower 



