100 



KEY TO THIC BIRDS OF EASTEIIN NORTH AMEKICA. 



Group 4. Wing, over 6.50 inches long. 



Breast, tiugoil witli iMifous checks ; rufous tlifoat, whitish ; l>ack, streaked; bill, long anil 

 slightly curved. Jlallut eleyans. King Rail. 



Sec No. 1(15. 



SUBFAMILY FULICIN/E. 

 Coots. 



Bill, short and pointed; forcliead, witli more or less of a shield; toes, with large lobate 

 welis; licad, lilackisli; back, dai'k slaty graj-; underi>arts, dark ash gray, wlutisli, on sibdoineu. 



Fnliea timiricana. American Coot. Hud Hen. Blue Peter. 



See No. 178. 



" Fur (liroctions ior meahiuremeiit, sue itaye '.I. 



