ORDER PALUDICOL^E. 8 1 



[B s6i, C 473> R S78, C 685.] 

 Geog. Dist.^ — South Atlantic and Gulf States, casually northward 

 to Maine, New York, Wisconsin, etc. ; south throughout the West 

 Indies, Mexico, Central America and northern South America to 

 Brazil. 



Genus G-ALLINULA Brisson. 

 Gallinula Briss. Orn. VI. 1760, 2. Type, Fulica chloropus Linn. 

 219. Gallinula galeata (Light.). 



Florida Gallinule, 



Crex galeata Light. Verz. Doubl. 1823, 80. 

 Gallinula galeata Bonap. Am. Orn. IV. 1832, 128. 

 [Bs6o, C 472, R 579, C68s.] 



Geog. Dist. — ■ Temperate and tropical America, from Canada to 

 Brazil and Chili. 



Subfamily FULICIN.a!. Coots. 

 Genus FULICA Linn^us. 

 Fulica Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 152. Type, F. atra Linn. 

 [220.] Fulica atra Linn. 



European Coot. 



Fulica atra Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 152. 

 [B— C— , R— C88s.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Northern parts of the eastern hemisphere in gen- 

 eral ; accidental in Greenland. 



221. Fulica americana Gmel. 



American Coot. 



Fulica americana Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 704. 

 [B 559, C 474, R 580, C 686.] 

 Geog. Dist. — North America, from Greenland and Alaska south- 

 ward to the West Indies and Veragua. 



