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GALLINULIN^. 



win^-coverts dusky with whitish edges ; bill greenish yellow, fine red 

 at the base ; the crest above one inch long, fleshy red ; irides red ; legs 

 dull red. 



Length. — 16 — 17 inches, extent 23, wing S^, tail 3*5, tarsus 3. — (Jerd.) 



Female. — Top of head dull black or dusky brown ; back of neck, back, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts and tertiaries the same, the feathers edged 

 with fulvous, more broadly on the back and wings ; tail the same ; sides 

 of the face including a broad supercilium fulvous, in some with a 

 rufescent tinge ;' chin and throat fulvous white ; neck in front, breast 

 and entire under parts brownish fulvous, the feathers with narrow 

 transverse bars ; thigh-coverts the same ; primaries and secondaries 

 dusky brown ; outer web of first quill fulvous. 



Length. — 13 — 14 inches, wing 7, tail 2*5, bill at gape 1'25, tarsus 2'5. 



Hah. — Sind, Lower Bengal, Tennaserim, South and Central India, 

 Burmah and Malayana. Afiects large swamps and marshes, also the 

 vicinity of rivers. On the Aaral, at Sehwan, several may be seen in 

 the early morning, issuing from the thick cover of tamarisk, fringing 

 the banks, and running along the edge of the water. 



Gen. Gallinula. — Briss. 



Bill moderate, curved slightly at the tip ; nostrils in a groove, placed 

 about the middle of the upper mandible ; bill extending on to the fore- 

 head and forming a small shield ; shoulder of wing with a tubercle or 

 spur ; toes very narrowly edged by membrane. 



Gallinula chloropus. The Water or Moor Hen. 



Gallinula cMoropUS, Linn.; P. E.. 377; Gould. B. Eur. pi. 

 342; Jerd. B. Lid. iii. p. 718; 8tr. F. i. 250; vi. 466; Murray, 

 Hdbk., Zool, Src Sind, p. 223. Gallinula burnesi, Bhjth, J. A. S. JB. 

 xiii. p. 736. {Gajra, Jal Moorgh, Sind.) — The Water or Moor Hen. 



