While at the bottom of the dispatch was forged the name of my friend, KISSLEBURGH, city editor of the Troy Times, who, up to the present time, if this coot knows herself, hain't bin into the hiway robbin' bizziness, not by a long shot.

You are just a lousy old coot!"

Mr. F.M. Chapman, in A List of Birds Observed at Gainesville, Florida, says of the boat-tailed grackle (Quiscalus major): "A singular note of this species greatly resembles the flapping of wings, as of a coot tripping over the water; this sound was very familiar to me, but so excellent is the imitation that for a long time I attributed it to one of the numerous coots which abound in most places favored by Q. major.

In the course of the trip we saw, besides the species already named, great blue and little blue herons, pied-billed grebes, coots, cormorants, a flock of small sandpipers (on the wing), buzzards, vultures, fish-hawks, and innumerable red-winged blackbirds.

At the upper end of the lake were many white-billed coots (Fulica americana); so many that we did our best to count them as they rose, flock after flock, dragging their feet over the water behind them with a multitudinous splashing noise.

Amongst fowl, peacocks and pigeons, all fenny fowl are forbidden, as ducks, geese, swans, herons, cranes, coots, didappers, water-hens, with all those teals, curs, sheldrakes, and peckled fowls, that come hither in winter out of Scandia, Muscovy, Greenland, Friesland, which half the year are covered all over with snow, and frozen up.

But they no longer own the entire lake, for they have been obliged to share it with swans, grebes, coots, loons, fen-ducks, and a lot of others.

As long as you wild ducks still had the power on Takern, they did not wish to drain it, for, at least, they got some good out of you; but now, grebes and coots and other birds who are no good as food, have infested nearly all the reed-banks, and the people don't think they need let the lake remain on their account.

John Coots and James Loraine.

"John Coots," said several voices all at once, "Why he's been here a half dozen times today.

I am afraid it will go hard with Coots.

What was the verdict of the jury?" "They brought in a verdict of death by killing at the hands of John Coots.

At the next sitting of the Court John Coots was arraigned, tried, and convicted of murder in the first degree.

"Dinnot be afeared on it Let's have a good un!" "Hurrah!" "Noo then," said John, "let's have yan more to end wi', and then coot off as quick as you loike.

Dabchicks, moorhens, and coots, fly erect, with their legs hanging down, and hardly make any dispatch; the reason is plain, their wings are placed too forward out of the true centre of gravity, as the legs of auks and divers are situated too backward.

"Mad as a coot; thinks he's the devil, and insists on wagging his little tail.

"Indians without paint are poor coots," said a gentleman who had been a great deal with, and really liked, them; and I like the effect of the paint on them; it reminds of the gay fantasies of nature.

Painted Glass in y' windows at Mr. Merser House is As foloweth 5 Coote of armse in 3 windowse in y' Kichen 2 Surkelor Coots of armse 6 Lians traveling 6 flours of Luse all Rede & a Holfe Surkel a top With 2 flours of luce y' Glass painted Rede Blew yoler & of a Green Shaye.

I come from haunts of coot and hern; drawing with caption.

I come from haunts of coot and hern; drawing with caption.

Likewise there were many coots, while herons, disturbed in their meditations by the untoward racket, flapped heavily away with disgusted squawks.

She'd coot 'er toong out foorst, Assy would.

Mizder Fosper, you are zo coot to all de boor beebles, dough you are only a boor man yourzelf.

2. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down the valley.

"There are other kinds of similar birds, like teals and coots which may be fed in the same way.