46 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
221. American Coot (Fulica americana). (Fic. 36.) 
Range.—North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, southern Mackenzie (N. W. T.), Mani- 
toba, Quebec, and New Brunswick south to northern Lower California, Texas, Tennessee, and New Jersey. 
and alsoin southern Mexico, southern West Indies, and Guatemala; winters from southern British Colum- 
bia, Nevada, Utah, the Ohio Valley, and Virginia south to Colombia; casual at Fort Yukon, Alaska, and 
in Greenland, Labrador, and Bermuda. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use—Coot; mud-hen. 
In local use.—Baldiace (Man.); blue marsh-hen (Me.); blue pond-hen (Mass.); blue- 
Peter (rarely blue-petie) (Atlantic coast, Me. to Fla.); chicken-bill, chicken-duck 
(Va.); Chinese mallard (Calif.); crow-bill (Conn., Md., Va., S. C.); crow-duck (Me., 
Long Id., N. Y., N. J., Md., D. C., Va.); flusterer (S. C.); fool-hen (Ala.); henbill 
(Long Id., N. Y. N.J.);ivorybill (La.); marsh-hen (Me. Mass., R. I.); meadow-hen 
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(Mass., R. I., Long Id., N. Y.); moor-hen (Md.); Mother Carey’s chicken (Ky.); 
mud-chicken, mud-duck (Minn.); pelick (Conn.); pond-crow, pond-hen (Mass.); 
poule d’eau (water-chicken) (Que., Ala., Miss., La., Tex.; this name has been intro- 
duced to some extent away from the centers of French population, then usually being 
pronounced pulldoo—localities, Conn., Long Id., N. Y., Wis.); rice-hen (Minn.); 
sea-crow (Mass., Conn.); tule-chicken, tule-hen ey water-chicken (N. Y., Tenn., 
Calif.); water-guinea (Ala.); water guinea-hen (Ky.); water-hen (Mass., Ky., Mo., 
B. C.); whitebill (Long Id., N. Y., N. J.). 
Geographic index.—Ala., fool-hen, poule d’eau, water-guinea; B. C., water-hen; Calif., 
Chinese mallard, tule-chicken, tule-hen, water-chicken; Conn., blue-Peter, crowbill, 
pelick, pulldoo, sea-crow; Del., blue-Peter; D. C., crow-duck; Fla., blue-Peter; Ga., 
blue-Peter; Ky., Mother Carey’s chicken, water guinea-hen, water-hen; La., ivory- 
bill, poule d’eau; Me., blue marsh-hen, blue-Peter, crow-duck, marsh-hen; Man., 
baldface; Md., blue-Peter, crowbill, crow-duck, moor-hen; Mass., blue pond-hen, 
blue-Peter, marsh-hen, meadow-hen, pond-crow, pond-hen, sea-crow, water-hen; 
Minn., mud-chicken, mud-duck, rice-hen; Miss., poule d’eau; Mo., water-hen; NV. H. 
