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SUBFAMILY GALLINULINE-E. 
GENUS GALLINULA. 
[219]. Gallinula galeata (Lichtenstein). Florida 
Gallinule. 
[Marsh Pullet]. 
Ranex.—Tropical and temperate America. Breeds 
from central California, Arizona, Nebraska, Minnesota, 
Ontario, New York, and Vermont south through the 
West Indies and Mexico to Chile and .\rgentina, and in 
the Galapagos and Bermuda; winters from southern 
California, .\rizona, Texas, and Georgia southward; 
casual in Colorado, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 
and Maine. 
Although we were quite sure the Florida Gallinule bred 
within our limits, it was not until the season of 1911 that 
my father actually took a set of eggs and identified the 
bird. The record set was found on the margin of a small 
brackish pond in the interior of Hog Island, Northampton 
County, June 17th. Incubation was far advanced; four 
eggs from the setting of nine were all that were saved. 
Undoubtedly they breed extensively along the shores and 
at the upper end of Back Bay, Princess Anne County, a 
mest suitable locality, and lower portions of rivers 
on the north side of Chesapeake Bay. Unless the 
weather be very cold, they remain with us until 
the middle or latter part of December, returning 
again the last of March, or a little later; weather con- 
