GAREANULAY .\ 77 
McGregor); Palawan (Platen, White); Panay (Bourns & Worcester) ; Siquijor 
(Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Sulu (Guwillemard); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & 
Worcester). Indian and Malay Peninsulas, Ceylon, Indo-Burmese Provinces, 
China, Greater and Lesser Sunda 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, 56; 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 fresh-water streams. 
Called “sally-quawk” by the natives from its notes.” (Bourns and 
Worcester MS.) 
Genus GALLINULA 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 white on flanks and under tail- 
coverts. 
69. GALLINULA CHLOROPUS (Linnzus). 
MOORHEN, 
Fulica chloropus LINNX=US, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 152. 
Gallinula chloropus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 169; Hand- 
List (1899), 1, 107; BLANForD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 175, 
fig. 37 (head); Grant and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 246 (eggs) ; 
OaTES, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1901), 1, 123; McGrecor and WoRCESTER, 
Hand-List (1906), 18. 
Ca-rab’ i-tu-mon’, Bohol. 
Basilan (McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Cebu (Everett) ; 
Guimaras (Bourns & Worcester) ; Leyte (Everett) ; Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere 
Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Hverett, Bourns 
& Worcester) ; Mindoro (Bourns € Worcester) ; Negros (Keay); Panay (Bourns 
& Worcester) ; Samar (Whitehead). Europe, Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius. 
