34 



lish Lake where they breed in limited numbers, ( Dury ; Deane ) ; also, at Davis 

 Station ( Coale ) ; Lake County, common, ( Toppan ) ; " very common about the 

 lakes (George and Wolf), the boys collect hundreds of their eggs every year. 

 Arrives much later than the Coots," ( Parker ) ; Vigo, ( Evermann ) ; Dekalb, 

 ( McBride.) 



Frontal plate of a species of Coot. 



. SUBFAMILY FULICIN^E. COOTS. 

 GENUS FULICA LINN.^US. 



* 79. Fulica americana Gmel. AMERICAN COOT. 



Common migrant and possibly rare winter resident, southward; northward 

 summer resident, locally very common. They migrate throughout March, April 

 and early May, and October and November. March 5, April 25, May 16, October 

 5, October 21, November 21, are dates of the beginning, middle and end of the 

 migrations in Southern Indiana. Professor Evermann reports them breeding 

 commonly in Vigo County. Found at English Lake February 14 and 15, 1891, 

 ( Deane.) 



ORDER LIMICOL^. SHORE BIRDS. 

 FAMILY PHALAROPODID^E. PHALAROPES. 



GENUS CRYMOPHILUS VIEILLOT. 



80. Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.}. RED PHALAROPE. 



Rare migrant. I am informed by Mr. R. R. Moffitt that he killed one in 

 Jasper County April 10, 1885, and Prof. B. W. Evermann informs me that one was 

 procured near Terre Haute October 23, 1889, by Dr. J. T. Scovill, of that city. 



