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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  wing 
  coverts 
  olive-green; 
  under 
  tail 
  coverts 
  white; 
  legs 
  yellow; 
  frontal 
  

   plate 
  bluish; 
  bill 
  carmine 
  tipped 
  with 
  yellow. 
  Young: 
  Duller, 
  more 
  

   brownish 
  above, 
  and 
  whitish 
  below. 
  Size 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  young 
  of 
  Florida 
  

   gallinules, 
  but 
  middle 
  toe 
  shorter 
  than 
  tarsals, 
  and 
  inner 
  posterior 
  surface 
  

   of 
  tarsus 
  scutellate, 
  and 
  nostrils 
  oval. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  tropical 
  and 
  lower 
  austral 
  America, 
  wandering 
  

   northward 
  to 
  Wisconsin, 
  Ontario 
  and 
  Nova 
  Scotia. 
  According 
  to 
  Giraud 
  

   it 
  was 
  extremely 
  rare 
  on 
  Long 
  Island 
  60 
  years 
  ago, 
  and 
  DeKay 
  puts 
  it 
  in 
  

   the 
  extralimital 
  list. 
  Mr 
  Nicholas 
  Pike, 
  however, 
  states 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  formerly 
  

   plentiful 
  on 
  the 
  island 
  [see 
  Dutcher, 
  Aiik, 
  10: 
  272]. 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  specimen 
  

   from 
  Indian 
  pond, 
  Flatbush, 
  L. 
  I., 
  in 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  Long 
  Island 
  

   Historical 
  Society; 
  and 
  another 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  Museum, 
  "obtained 
  within 
  

   the 
  State" 
  by 
  J. 
  G. 
  Bell. 
  Our 
  latest 
  record 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  from 
  Middle 
  Island, 
  

   L. 
  I., 
  summer 
  of 
  1879 
  [Helme, 
  O. 
  & 
  O., 
  7: 
  118]. 
  

  

  Occasional 
  reports 
  of 
  the 
  Purple 
  gallinule 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  

   investigated 
  prove 
  to 
  refer 
  to 
  high 
  plumaged 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  

   species. 
  A 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  plate 
  will 
  dispel 
  any 
  illusion 
  with 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  

   difference 
  between 
  the 
  two 
  species. 
  

  

  Gallinula 
  galeata 
  (Lichtenstein) 
  

  

  Florida 
  Gallinule 
  

  

  Plate 
  27 
  

  

  Crex 
  galeata 
  Lichtenstein. 
  Verz. 
  Daubl. 
  1823. 
  p. 
  80 
  

   Gallinula 
  galeata 
  DeKav. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2. 
  p. 
  264, 
  fig. 
  2,34 
  

  

  A. 
  O.'U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  219 
  

  

  galll'nula, 
  Lat. 
  diminutive 
  oi 
  gaUi'na, 
  hen; 
  galea'ta, 
  Lat., 
  helmeted 
  

  

  Description. 
  Forehead 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  horny 
  plate, 
  or 
  shield, 
  reaching 
  

   backward 
  and 
  expanding 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  culmen; 
  nostrils 
  slitlike, 
  

   near 
  center 
  of 
  bill; 
  tarsus 
  reticulate 
  on 
  its 
  inner 
  posterior 
  edge, 
  otherwise 
  

   scutellate; 
  middle 
  toe 
  longer 
  than 
  tarsus. 
  Adult: 
  Head, 
  neck 
  and 
  under 
  

   parts 
  dark 
  bhtish 
  slate 
  color, 
  becoming 
  whitish 
  on 
  the 
  belly 
  ; 
  back 
  brownish 
  

   olive; 
  wing 
  and 
  tail 
  feathers 
  dusky; 
  lateral 
  under 
  tail 
  coverts, 
  edge 
  of 
  

   wing 
  and 
  flank 
  stripe 
  white; 
  tarsus 
  and 
  toes 
  greenish; 
  ring 
  around 
  tibia, 
  

   frontal 
  plate 
  and 
  most 
  of 
  bill 
  red; 
  CA^es 
  reddish 
  brown. 
  Immature: 
  Colors 
  

   duller; 
  under 
  parts 
  whitish; 
  bill 
  and 
  legs 
  dull 
  colored. 
  Downy 
  chicks: 
  

   Black 
  with 
  silvery 
  beards. 
  

  

  