



PURPLE GALLINULE. 



(Gallinula martinica, Gmel. Boxap. Syn. No. 274. Lath. Ind. p. 



769. No. 9. Fidica martinica, Lin. (ed. 12.) i. p. 259. sp. 7. Gcd- 



limda porphyria, Wilson, ix. p. C7. pi. 73. fig. 2. Phil. Museum. 



No. 4294.) 

 Sp. Charact. — Lower wing coverts blue ; all the under tail coverts 



pure white: no colored circle around the tibia. — Adult, purple. 



back and tail green ; the sides of the neck and wings blue. Tlie 



young varied with dull purplish and dusky ; beneath with tlacik 



and white. 



This very splendid, but incongruous species of Galli- 

 nule, is, in the United States, a bird of passage, wintering 

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