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GALLINULA CHLOROPUS CACHINNANS Bangs 



Florida Gaulinule 



Adult (sexes alike) . — Entire head (except large bare frontal shield), 

 hind neck, sides of neck, and the throat plumbeous-black, paling some- 

 what posteriorly to blackish plumbeous and to dark neutral gray on 

 the upper back (interscapulars) and on the breast, sides, flanks, and 

 anterior and lateral parts of the abdomen ; the posterior interscapulars 

 slightly tinged with oily bronzy greenish as are also the upper wing 

 coverts; inner upper wing coverts, scapulars, back, rump, and upper 

 tail coverts bister to warm sepia and argus brown, this color usually 

 darker and more uniform on the posterior upper parts and more 

 mixed with bronzy dark neutral gray on the wings and back; outer 

 upper wing coverts dark neutral gray ; alula and remiges clove brown, 

 the alula with the outer webs externally edged with white; carpal 

 edge of the wing also white; the primaries with a cinereous wash 

 terminally and externally; rectrices plumbeous-black with a faint 

 gloss and very indistinctly and narrowly barred with slightly paler 

 and more brownish bars of blackish plumbeous ; middle of abdomen 

 whitish more or less mottled with neutral gray to deep neutral gray 

 (owing to the fact that the white is restricted to the terminal part of 

 the feathers) ; vent and median under tail coverts black, the lateral 

 under tail coverts white; under wing coverts blackish plumbeous to 

 deep neutral gray, the feathers margined with white ; iris dark maroon 

 red with an inner ring of brown ; bill and frontal shield deep scarlet 

 vermilion, the tip of bill light green ; tarsi and toes pale greenish, the 

 joints and soles bluish, "garter" on tibiae scarlet. 



Juvenal (sexes alike). — Top of head, hind neck, and interscapulars 

 dusky olive-brown to grayish mummy brown, the interscapulars 

 slightly washed with bronzy greenish; back, scapulars, rump, upper 

 tail coverts, rectrices, and wings as in adult, except that even the outer 

 upper wing coverts are heavily washed with brownish in the juvenal 

 plumage and the primaries are less tinged with cinereous than in the 

 adult stage ; sides of head hair brown, mottled with drab and with a 



Parana ; Buenos Aires: Entre Rios) ; Bertoni, Fauna Paraguaya, 1914, 37; 

 Chubb, Birds Britisli Guiana, i, 1916, 77. — [Gallinula] galeata Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 140, part; Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 107, part; 

 Brabourne and Cliubb, Birds South America, i, 1912, 25; Ihering (H. and R.), 

 Aves Brazil, 1907, 31 (Rio Grande do Sul ; Sao Paulo; Matto Grosso; Rio de 

 Janeiro; Bahia ; Minas Geraes). — Oallimila galeata galeata Hellmayr, Nov. 

 Zool., xiii, 1906, 53 (Caroni and Caroni Swamp, Trinidad; crit.). — Oallimda, 

 chloropus galeata Hartert and Venturi, Nov. Zool., xvi, 1909, 258 (Barracas al 

 Sud, Argentina ; descr. eggs) ; Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, v, 1915, 

 95 (crit.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., xxii, 1917, 269 (ciit.) ; Osgood and Conover, 

 Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. 210, 1922, 40 (Lagunilla and Rio Aurare, Vene- 

 zuela ; crit.) ; Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 19,34, 205. 



