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[[margin]] [[underline]] Florida gallinule [[/underline]] [[/margin]]

glossy dark breast, getting darker about the neck & head. On watching him closely, I noted a red patch at first looking like a flat, wide comb from the bill up the forehead, though not looking to me as wide as it appears in the books. The bill was yellow or whitish-yellow, appearing to extend less than inch in front of the red. I circled up the steep hill in back of the tree (which is at the foot of the hill) and got 50-60 feet up hill where I could see he was standing in the fork with feet spread about 3 inches apart on opposite sides of fork; legs appeared green or greenish-yellow, although from back he was silhouetted against source of light; they seemed about 5 inches or so long. There was something on the rump giving appearance of lighter color, perhaps ruffled

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