GALLINULA. 77 



McGregor) ; Palawan {Platen, While); Panay {Bourns d- Worcester); Siquijor 

 {Bourns <£- Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu {Guillemard) ; Tawi Tawi {Bourns d 

 Worcester). Indian and Malay Peninsulas, Ceylon, Indo-Burmese Provinces, 

 China, Greater and Lesser Siinda Islands, Celebes. 



Adult (sexes alike). — Above including wings dark slate-gray; middle 

 of neck, back, and inner secondaries washed with olive; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts dull brown; forehead, eyebrow, face, sides 

 of neck, chin, throat, and breast white; from behind eye a black streak 

 separating the gray above from the white below, abdomen and thighs 

 washed with light chestnut ; flanks and under tail-coverts chestnut ; some 

 of the upper tail-coverts slightly chestnut; alula and primaries blackish, 

 first feather of each edged with white : edge of wing white ; under wing- 

 coverts blackish, fringed with white; tail blackish. Iris dark brown; up- 

 per mandible red behind nostril, remainder dark green ; lower mandible 

 pea-green ; legs yellowish brown or light brown. 



Length, 292 to 305. A male from Danao, Cebu, August 2, 1906, meas- 

 ures : Wing, 147 ; tail, 63 ; culmen from base, 38 ; tarsus, 56 ; middle toe 

 with claw, 65. A male from Palawan, January 17, 1906, measures: 

 Wing, 156; tail, 69; culmen from base, 37; tarsus, 5(5; middle toe with 

 claw, 64. A female from Basilan, December 21, 1906, measures: Wing, 

 147 ; tail, 58 ; culmen from base, 35 ; tarsus, 53 ; middle toe with claw, 63. 



A very common bird in marshy regions and along fresli-water streams. 

 Called "sally-qua wk'' hy the natives from its notes." (Bourns and 

 Worcester MS.) 



Genus GALLIXULA Brisson, 1760. 



Bill moderate, the culmen extending backward on the forehead to 

 opposite center of eye and forming a tumid shield with rounded posterior 

 margin; toes with a narrow fold on each side; middle toe without claw 

 longer than tarsus ; plumage black with w^hite on flanks and under tail- 

 coverts. 



(iy. GALLINULA CHLOROPUS (Linmeus). 



MOORHEN. 



Fnlica rhloroiHts Lixx.EUS, Syst. Xat. ed. 1(» I 1758). 1, 1.52. 



UalUnula chloropus Sharpk, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 169; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 107; Biaxkord. Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 175. 

 fig. .37 (liead); (Jrant and Whiteheai), Ibis (1898). 240 (eggs); 

 Oatks, Cat. liirds' Eggs (1901). 1, 12:?; MeCJRKiiOH and Worcester, 

 Hand- Li St ( 1906), 18. 



Carab' i-tu-nion', Bohol. 



Basilan {Mcflreyor) : Boliol ( M(<lrv(j(>r] ; Caiayan { Mcdnu/or) : Ci-bu (Ererett) ; 

 Guiniaras { Bourns d- Worcester) ; I>eyte (Ererett) ; Luzon [Meyer, Ererett, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d- Worcester. Whitehead, .McGregor } ; .Mindanao {Ererett, Bourns 

 d Worcester) ; Mindoro (Bourns d Worcester); Negros (Keay) ; Panay (Bourns 

 d Worcester) ; Samar ( Whitrhnid) . Kuropc. .Asia. Africa. Madagascar, Mauritius. 



