GALLICREX. 79 



70. GALLICREX CINEREA (Gnielin). 

 WATERCOCK. 



Fulica cinerea Gmelix, Syst. Xat. (1788), 1, pt. 2, 702. 



Gallicrex cinerea Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 183; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 108; Graxt, Ibis (1895), 265; Blaxford, Fauna Brit. 

 Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 176, %. 38, (head); Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs 

 (1901), 1, 125; pi. 10, fig. 6; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 

 (1906), 18. 



Can-nit-toc', Manila; tub-tuh, Ticao; tu-yud', Boliol; tug-tug, Masbate. 



Bantayan {McGregor); Bohol {McGregor) ; Catanduanes {Whitehead); Cebu 

 {Bourns cC- Worcester) ; Luzon {Dussumier, Cuming, Heriot, McGregor) ; Marin- 

 duque {Steere Exp.); Masbate {Bourns cC- Worcester); Mindanao {Bourns d- 

 Worcester, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro {Botirns d Worcester) ; Negros {Keay) ; Panay 

 {Bourns d- Worcester); Sibuyan {McGregor) ; Sulu {Guillemard) ; Tablas (Ce- 

 lestino) ; Ticao {McGregor). Ceylon, Burmese provinces to China and Japan, 

 Malay and Indian Peninsulas, Greater Sunda Islands. 



"Adult male. — General color above black, with a few remains of ashy 

 gray margins to the feathers, or with brown edgings to the scapulars, lower 

 back, and rump; upper wing-coverts blackish, broadly edged with ashy 

 gray; bend of wing white; alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish 

 brown, slightly shaded with gray externally, first primary externally 

 white; inner secondaries edged with' light brown; tail-feathers blackish, 

 edged with brown; head and neck all round and under surface of body 

 deep black; a few whitish feathers on lower abdomen; under tail-coverts 

 buffy white, with black bars ; under wing-coverts black, barred and edged 

 with white; axillars black like the sides of the breast. 'Frontal shield 

 and base of upper mandible deep red ; remainder of bill yellow, a spot on 

 each side of lower mandible red; frontal process or horn pinkish; legs 

 phimbeous green; claws horn-color; iris reddish brown; eyelids plum- 

 I>eous.' (Oates.) Length, 419; culnien with frontal shield, G9 ; wing. 

 218; tail, 74; tarsus, 79. 



"According to Oates, the male in winter has the fleshy process on the 

 head reduced in size or nearly obsolete. 



'■'Adult female. — General color above dark brown with a slight ashy 

 shade, the feathers with sandy buff margins, so that the upper surface 

 appears streaked ; lower back and rump rather more uniform ; wing- 

 coverts asliy gray, the greater series browner, with fulvous margins like 

 tlie inner secondaries, which have dusky frecklings also on the outer web ; 

 ahila ashy brown, the outer feathers edged with white; primary-coverts 

 and quills brown, externally shaded with ashy; first primary white along 

 the outer web; tail-featliers dark brown, edged with ligliter brown; crown 

 uniform dark brown, forming a cap; hind neck like the back; lores, 

 eyebrow, sides of face, and sides of neck dark sandy buff; throat and 

 center of the abdomen white; remainder of under surface from the lower 

 throat downwards pale isabelline buff, crossed with narrow wavy bars 



