136 Stuart-Sutherland, jSnv/i of Pitysegitr Point, N.Z. [,^^"^(.1. 



White Variety of the Black Moor^Hen (Gallinula 



tenebrosa). 



By W. B. Alexander, M.A., Keeper of Biology, Museum, 

 Perth (W.A.) 



The specimen illustrated herewith was shot at Wanneroo, near 

 Perth (W.A.), in March, 1916, as recorded in The Emu, vol. xvi., 

 p. 42. The photograph was taken after the bird had been 

 mounted at the Western Australian Museum. The specimen is 

 not an albino, since, a number of the feathers scattered over the 



Wlute Varietv oi the Black .Moor-Hen (Gatlniiila teiabi 



body are almost normally dark in colour. The eye was black, 

 the beak scarlet with yellow tip, and the legs parti-coloured green 

 and scarlet. The colours were, however, lighter than in normal 

 birds. 



Two Australian birds have a white phase existing naturally 

 alongside the coloured one — viz., the Reef-Heron {Demiegretta 

 sacra) and the Grey Goshawk {Astiir cinereits). The latter is 

 specially interesting, because the white form, generally known as 

 A shir novce-hollandice, lias a wider range than the grey bird, being 

 found in Tasmania and North-West Australia, where the grey 

 form is unknown. More than one observer has noted that the 



