Annotated List of Species IQ 



14. Gallinula galeata (Licht.) . Florida Gallinule. 



An uncommon and local summer resident.* In addition to the 

 localities named below, it has been reported breeding at Cape 

 Cod.i 



April 29 to October 9. 



Cambridge : Uncommon summer resident. Nantucket : One instance. 

 Springfield: "Verj rare summer resident." Probably breeds. Wellesley: 

 " Rare summer resident." 



15. lonornis martinica (Linn.). Purple Gallinule. 



An occasional visitant from the south, having been taken once 

 in the breeding season. The records are : Stoiuham, one bird 

 noted November 27, 1837 ; ^ Swampscott, one taken April 22, 1852 ; 3 

 Cape Cod, one obtained by Mr. William Brewster in April, 1870 ; * 

 Nantucket, one taken at Hummock Pond in October, 1872;' 

 Rockport, one shot by Robert Wendel, April 12, 1875 '1 ° Chatham, 

 one seen in flesh in the Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, in April, 

 1890, which had been caught in a trap ; * Plymouth, a female taken 

 April 9 [?], 1892, by C. C. Wood;' Boxford, one caught in June, 

 1897 ; " another, supposed to be of the same species, and the mate, 

 were seen at the pond." ' 



16. Fulica americana Gmel. American Coot. 



An uncommon migrant, rare in spring and perhaps formerly a 

 summer resident. 



March 29 to April 25 ; September 19 to November 7. 



Amherst: "Occurs occasionally." Berkshire: "Transient visitant in 

 the autumn." Bristol County : " Common fall transient visitant to the 

 ponds and rivers along the coast, rarer in spring." Brookline : "For- 

 merly'.... not an uncommon migrant." Cambridge: Transient visitant; 

 rare in April, common September to November. Cohasset: "Rare in 



* Brewster; Auk, Vol. VIII, No. i, Jan., 1891, pp. 1-7. ' 

 1 Miller; Auk, Vol. VIII, No. i, Jan., 1891, pp. 118, 119. 

 ^ Peabody ; Report on Birds of Mass., 1839, p. 258. 



' Putnam ; Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. I, 1856, p. 224. 



■* Baird, Brewer and Ridgway ; Water Birds, Vol. I, 1884, p. 385. 



* Brewer ;"Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XX, 1879, p. 106. 



* Whitman; Amer. Nat., Vol. IX, No. 10, Oct., 1875, P- 573- 

 ' Wood; O. and O., Vol. XVII, No. 5, May, 1892, p. 72. 



' Farley ; Auk, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Apr., 1901, p. 190. 



