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70. GALLICREX CINEREA (Gmelin). 
WATERCOCK, 
Fulica cinerea GMELIN, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, pt. 2, 702. 
Gallicrer cinerea SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 183; Hand- 
List (1899), 1, 108; Grant, Ibis (1895), 265; BLANForRD, Fauna Brit. 
Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 176, fig. 38, (head); Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs 
(1901), 1, 125; pl. 10, fig. 6; McGregor and WorcesTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 18. 
Can-nu-toc’, Manila; twb-tub, Ticao; tu-yud’, Bohol; tug-tug, Masbate. 
Bantayan (McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu 
(Bourns & Worcester) ; Luzon (Dussumier, Cuming, Heriot, McGregor) ; Marin- 
duque (Steere Exp.); Masbate (Bourns dé Worcester); Mindanao (Bourns & 
Worcester, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester) ; Negros (Keay); Panay 
(Bourns & 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 
plumbeous green; claws horn-color; iris reddish brown; eyelids plum- 
beous.’ (OQates.) Length, 419; culmen with frontal shield, 69; 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 ashy gray, the greater series browner, with fulvous margins like 
the inner secondaries, which have dusky frecklings also on the outer web ; 
alula 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-feathers dark brown, edged with lighter brown; crown 
uniform dark brown, forming a4 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 
