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the last week of September, 1898, on the Canard river, N.S. (H. 
F. Tujts.) A not uncommon summer visitor in Quebec. (Dionne.) 
A common summer resident at Montreal, but more plentiful in the 
autumn. (Wontle.) Not an uncommon summer resident in Ontario, 
and breeds from Ottawa to Lake Erie. 
BREEDING Notes.—A nest of this species with seven eggs, partly 
incubated, was taken at Kars, on the Rideau river, Ont., 9th July, 
1890, by Messrs. W. and F. A. Saunders. 
On June 6th, 1903, I visited the marshes at Lake St. Francis, 
near Summerton, Ont., and found the Florida gallinule nesting on a 
shallow platform of dead rushes fastened to reed stalks and elevated 
several inches above the water level; the nest contained eleven 
fresh eggs. (Lewis M. Terrill.) 
A few years ago this was a common bird in many parts of Ontario 
but is becoming scarcer every year—not by reason of hunters only, 
but because of the draining and drying up of many of its former 
haunts. It still breeds in the inland marshes between Kingston 
and Brockville, and occasionally along the River St. Lawrence. 
It constructs in the water a nest of last year’s stems of bullrushes, 
well surrounded by a growth of the same. Except in one case 
I have been able to row in a boat to all the nests I have found. 
The eggs are usually laid from the middle of May onward, the largest 
number I have found in one nest being eleven. They exactly re- 
semble in size and colour the well known ‘‘moor-hen”’ of Britain, 
as does the location of the nest. (Rev. C. J. Young.) This species 
builds in the larger marshes only. I have found it, however, in the 
marsh at Toronto. The nest is built like that of a rail, fastened 
to the surrounding rushes, and usually high enough to escape the 
moisture. Eggs six to ten. . (W. Saunders.) 
LXXXVI. FULICA Linnzus. 1758. 
220. European Coot. 
Fulica atra LINN. 1758. 
Accidental in Greenland. (A. O. U. List.) Collected in South 
Greenland, and now in the Copenhagen museum. (Wvange.) 
