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14. Gallinula galeata (Licht.) . FLORIDA GALLINULE. 



An uncommon and local summer resident.* In addition to the 

 localities named below, it has been reported breeding at Cape 

 Cod. 1 



April 29 to October 9. 



Cambridge : Uncommon summer resident. Nantucket : One instance. 

 Springfield: "Very rare summer resident." Probably breeds. Wellesley : 

 " Rare summer resident." 



15. lonornis 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 ; 2 Swampscott, one taken April 22, 1852 ; 2 

 Cape Cod, one obtained by Mr. William Brewster in April, 1870 ; 4 

 Nantucket, one taken at Hummock Pond in October, 1872 ; 5 

 Rockport, one shot by Robert Wendel, April 12, 1875 ; 6 Chatham, 

 one seen in flesh in the Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, in April, 

 1890, which had been caught in a trap; 8 Plymouth, 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." 8 



1 6. 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. I, 1 Jan., 1891, pp. 1-7. 



1 Miller; Auk, Vol. VIII, No. r, Jan., 1891, pp. 118, 119. 



2 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. 



5 Brewer ; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XX, 1879, P- IQ 6. 



6 Whitman; Amer. Nat., Vol. IX, No. 10, Oct., 1875, P- 573- 



7 Wood; O. and O., Vol. XVII, No. 5, May, 1892, p. 72. 

 9 Farley ; Auk, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Apr., 1901, p. 190. 



