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

 and laying conterminous, so that hatching continues 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). 



!>2-215-(680). Porzana noveboracensis (Omel.}. 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 GALLINUL1N7E. GALLINULES. 

 GENUS GALLINULA BBISS. 



93-219-(684:). Galliniila galeata (Licht.). * 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- 

 el!); 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 FUL1CA LINN. 



Frontal Shield of Coot. 



Fulica aniericana Omel. * AMERICAN COOT: COOT; MUD HEN. 

 Very common; throughout - th>- entire. State: -"do not summer in . Kalama/oo 



