Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. A5 
marsh-hen (Que., Mich., Md., Fla.); marsh-Peter (N. C.); marsh-pullet (D. C., Va.); 
meadow-hen (Conn.); moor-hen (Mich., Calif.); mud-hen (Que., N. Y., Mich., l., 
Ind., Ala., Fla.); mud-pullet (Fla.); pond-fowl (Ga., Fla.); pond-guinea (Fla.); 
poule d’eau (water hen) (Que.); poule d’eau de marais (marsh water-hen) (La.); 
rail-hen (Ont.); rale poule d’eau (rail water-hen) (La.); red-billed mud-hen (Long 
Id., N. Y., Mich., Iowa, Mo., Tex., Calif.); rice-bird (Ont.); rice-hen (Wis., IIl., 
Ind.); summer coot (Fla.); teich-huhn (pond-hen) (Mo.); water-chicken (N. Y.); 
wild-hen (N. J., Pa.). 
Fig. 35.—Florida Gallinule. 
Geographic index.—Ala., mud-hen; Calif., bershon rail, moor-hen; red-billed mud- 
hen; Conn., king rail, meadow-hen; D. C., king ortolan, marsh-pullet; Fla., king 
rail, marsh-hen, mud-hen, mud-pullet, pond-fowl, pond-guinea, summer coot; Ga., 
pond-fowl; J7/., mud-hen, rice-hen; Ind., mud-hen, rice-hen; Jowa, red-billed mud- 
hen; La., poule d’eau de marais, rale poule d’eau; Md., king ortolan, king rail, marsh- 
hen; Mass., gray pond-hen; Mich., chicken-foot, marsh-hen, moor-hen, mud-hen, 
red-billed mud-hen; Mo., red-billed mud-hen, teich-huhn; NV. J., blue rail, wild 
hen; V. Y., mud-hen, red-billed mud-hen, water-chicken; N. C., marsh-Peter; 
Ont., chicken-foot coot, rail-hen, rice-bird; Pa., blue rail, wild-hen; Que., marsh- 
hen, mud-hen, poule d’eau; S. C., bald coot, gallinoo; Tex., red-billed mud-hen; 
Va., blue rail, king sora, marsh-pullet; Wvs., rice-hen. 
BOOK NAMES. 
American gallinule, black gallinule, common American gallinule, common gallinule, 
gallinule 4 pieds verts-jaundtres (gallinule with yellowish-green legs), gallinule de la 
Floride (Florida gallinule), pond-hen, scarlet-fronted gallinule, water-hen. 
Subfamily FurictnaeE: Coots. 
220. European Coot (Fulica atra). 
Range.—Northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere; accidental in Greenland. 
Names.—Some English names for this speciesare bald coot, black diver, water-crow, 
and white-faced diver. French names include foulque macroule (‘‘foulque”’ is the 
Specific vernacular for the coot; ‘‘macroule’’ is thought to be an ancient form of 
“™macreuse,” a name applied to the scoters and originally signifying spotted), and 
foulque morelle (‘‘morelle,’’ derived from a root word meaning black). 
