oil. I'OKi'nvHK). lOo 



Hhs, 1881, v- 3 "8: fiiyl. t. c. y. 110; id. Itouogr. Aiif. Hal. 

 fasc. zi. (1881); B. O. U. List Jirif. B. p. 149(1883); Tristr. 

 Faun. Sc Flor. Pnlest. p. 12') (1884 : Marshes of the Iluleh) ; Reid, 

 Ibis, imo, p. 252 (Mhtocco); Gitfl. Arif. Ifril. p. .•{oo (1886); 

 Salvad. Elench. Ucc. Ital. p. 2.'.7' (188(5); Gi<jl. Avif. Jttil. 1st 

 Kesoc. p. ool (188U) ; More, Zool. (3) xiv. p. 24 (1890: Irelaml) ; 

 Brusimi, Orn. Croat, p. 84 (1890). 



Adult. General colour above dull puqilish blue including the 

 winces, -which are slightly brighter purple on the marginal coverts ; 

 quills black, externally purplish blue; the innermost secondaries 

 almost entirely of the latter colour ; tail-feathers black, externally 

 washed with purple ; crown of head like the back ; region of the 

 eye and lores blackish ; the feathers behind the eye, ear-coverts, 

 sides of face, cheeks, throat, fore neck, and chest glistening blue ; 

 the entire breast, abdomen, aud sides of body as well as tbe thighs 

 sooty blackish slightly glossed with purple; under tail-coverts 

 white : under ^^-ing-cove^ts like the breast, the greater scries and 

 lower primary-coverts black like the quill-liuing : " frontal plate 

 and bill bright sealing-wax red : legs flesh-red ; iris lake-red " 

 (//. E. Dresser). Total length 10 inches, culmen and frontal shield 

 2-8, wing 10, tail 3-5, tarsus 3-S5, middle toe and claw 4-9. 



Hah. Countries bordering the Mediterranean east to Mesopotamia. 

 Spain and Portugal to the South of France, eastwards to Sicily; 

 accidental in Italy and probably other countries to the eastward. 



a. Ad. sk. Algeria. Purchased. 



b. o ad- sk. Catania, Sicily, Marcli 30 Shelley Cull. 



(E. C. Taylor), 

 r, d, e. Skeletons. Euro])e. Purcliased 



/. Skeleton (skull i:urope. Purchased. 



wanting). 

 </. Stfrnuin. Algeria. Purclias.-d. 



'1. Poi*phyrio porphyrio. 



La Poule Sultane, Briss.. Orn. v. p. 22, pi. 40. fig. 1 (1760). 



Pulica porplivrici, Linn. Si/st. Xat. i. p. -J-'tH (1766); Ft>r.<ter. Df.<cr. 



An. ]). 4;t (1844). 

 I>a Taleve d.- MaibiLra-car. Daitlienf. PI. Enl. ix. pi. 810. 

 Crey-iieadt-d Galliuule, Lath. Gin. isifn. Suppl. i. p. 370 (1787). 

 Gallinula porphyrio. Lath. Lid. Orn.'W. p. 76» (1790). 

 Gallituila luadaga^cariensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. Ixviii (1801). 

 Porjilivrio ciilorvnothos, Vifill. N. Diet. d'JIid. i\a/. xxviii. p -'4 



(IM'9). • ^ 



Porphyrio siunragnotus, Temm. Man. ii. p. 700 (1820); Gr.ri/. Lid 



GralUe Brit. Mux. p. 121 (1844); Gurnet/, 76jx, 18.'>9, j). 249 



(Natal); Jlartl. J.f. O. 1861. p. 272 ( Keta, .Slave Coa.-t); Dodcrl. 



Arif. ^icil. p. 204 (1869) ; Fin.sch ^- Hartl. Viig. Ost-Afr. p. 783 



(1870) ; Salcad. Faun. Ital., Ucc. p. 234 (1871) ; Gray, 'llanJ-l. H. 



iii. p. 64, n. 104S0 (1871); Gitrneij in Anderss. U. Daniara-Ld. 



p. 325 (1872: Daiuara, (U. NauMqua-Ld., Lake liegions) ; 



I>;w.w, i;. JiW. vii. p. 303, pi. 501 (187(;): Rartl. Vog. Madag. 



p. 345 (1877) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, y,. 4 f<4 (18^1: Rio Coroca, 



Mossamedes) ; Miln-.-Edtcards \ Grandid. Hist. Xaf. Madag., 



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