Class -II. COMMON GALLINULE. 



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La Poulette d'eau. Belon av. 



211. 



'Ein wafTerhen. Gefner av. 

 501. 



Chloropus major noftra. Aldr. 

 av. III. 177. 



Common Water-hen, or Moor- 

 hen. Wil. orn. 312. 



Raii fyn. &V. 112. 



Gallinula, la Poule d'eau. 

 Brijfon av. VI. 3. Tab. 1. 



Gallinella aquatlca, Pcrza- 



none. Zinan. 109. 

 WafTerhen nl. Kram, 358. 

 Rothblsffige Kieine Waffer- 



huhn. Frifcb, II. 2.09. 

 Fdica chloropus. Lin. fyjl. 



258. 

 Brunnicby 191. Scopoli, No. 



5r. Z00/. 131* 



217. Coi 



MON. 



THE male of this fpecies weighs about fifteen 

 ounces. Its length to the end of the *tail De scrip, 

 fourteen inches: the breadth twenty-two. The 

 crown of the head, hind part of the neck, the 

 back, and coverts of the wings are of a fine, but 

 very deep olive green. Under fide of the body cine-* 

 reous: the chin and belly mottled with whiter 

 quil-feathers and tail dufky : exterior fide of the 

 £rft primary feather, and the ridge of the wings 

 white: vent black: feathers juft beneath the tail 

 white : legs dufky green. The colors of the plu- 

 mage in the female, are much lefs brilliant than that 

 of the male : in Hze it is alfo inferior. Mr. WiU 

 lughby in his defcription takes no notice of the 

 beautiful olive glofs of the plumage of thefe birds ; 

 nor that the bill affumes a fuller and brighter red 

 in the courting feafon. 



It gets its food on grafTy banks, and borders ntrar 

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