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Definition of Gallinules
1. gallinule [n] - See also: gallinule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallinules
Literary usage of Gallinules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"Kails and gallinules are not strictly gregarious, but are generally associated
through a ... gallinules live near the marshy borders of bodies of water, ..."
2. Birds that hunt and are hunted by Neltje Blanchan (1905)
"There is a popular impression, for which the early ornithologists are doubtless
responsible, that all gallinules are birds of the tropics; ..."
3. A Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri by Otto Widmann (1907)
"Twenty years ago Florida gallinules used to be numerous breeders on the lakes
... Fortunately gallinules have learned to come late, after the first of May, ..."
4. Audubon and His Journals by John James Audubon, Maria Rebecca Audubon, Elliott Coues (1897)
"whistling wings, while, on the waters, floated gallinules and other interesting
birds. We formed a kind of shed with sticks and grass, the sailor cook ..."
5. The Birds of Ontario: Being a Concise Account of Every Species of Bird Known by Thomas McIlwraith (1894)
"RAILS, gallinules, COOTS, ETC. SUBFAMILY RALLIN^E. RAILS. GENUS RALLUS Lixx.nrs.
RALLUS ELEGANS (Aun.). 80. King Rail. (208) Above, brownish-black, ..."
6. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"Both species of gallinules are good swimmers and also adepts at walking or skulking
over and through the rushes and reeds. Their habits are rail-like in ..."
7. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"23), but the record is not mentioned in the third edition of the American
Ornithologists' Union Check-List. RAILS, CRAKES, gallinules AND COOTS. ..."
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