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and its feathers soft; the two anterior toes 

 joined tog-ether at their origin, and the two 

 posterior unconnected. 



It is a summer visitor to Great Britain, 

 spending the winter in north Africa and the 

 warm parts of western Asia. It arrives in 

 April and leaves in early September, so near- 

 ly at the same time with the cuckoo that it 

 has been called the cuckoo's mate. 



Though having many of the habits of wood- 

 peckers, it does not associate with them. 

 The food consists principally of 'insects and 

 berries; it generally feeds on the ground. 



The nest is made in holes in trees after the 

 manner of the woodpecker, and from six to 

 ten white eggs are laid. Wm. Rolfe. 



Twickenham. 



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Last May a friend brought me a wounded 

 bird, which he had caught near Cedar Lake, 

 to identify. I thought at first sight that the 

 bird was a purple gallinule, but it proved, up- 

 on closer examination, to be a Florida galli- 

 nule, (Gallinula galeata. ) 



This bird, which had probably been migrat- 



mmm 



