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71. PORPHYRIO PULVERULENTUS Temminck. 
PHILIPPINE BLUE GALLINULE. 
Porphyrio pulverulentus TEMMINCK, PI. Col. (1826), 5, pl. 405; SHaRpPE, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 207; Hand-List (1899), 1, 109; 
McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 18. 
Ac-bag, Manila; ca-rab a-bu-hon, Bohol. 
Bohol (McGregor); Luzon (Steere Exp., McGregor); Mindanao (Mearns) ; 
Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester). 
Adult male.—General color hoary blue, lighter on head, neck, and fore 
breast; much darker, nearly navy blue on abdomen; crissum white; 
scapulars and upper back rich olive-brown or russet-brown, the feathers 
edged more or less with blue; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 
duller brown ; primaries black, their outer webs verditer-blue ; short under 
wing-coverts blue, the longer ones black ; tail blackish edged with verditer- 
blue. 
In a male from the Manila market, March 24, 1903, the bill and shield 
were dusky cardinal ; a space back of nostril and at base of lower mandible 
whitish; iris reddish brown; legs and feet reddish brown, joints dusky; 
nails brown. Length; 432; tail, 88; culmen from posterior margin of 
shield, 74; bill from gape, 41; bill from nostril, 32; tarsus, 93; middle 
toe with claw, 108. 
Adult female.—Similar to the male. A female from Guindulman, 
Bohol, June 20, 1906, measures: Length, 394; wing, 236; tail, 88; cul- 
men from posterior margin of shield, 67; bill from gape, 35; bill from 
nostril, 28; tarsus, 83; middle toe with claw, 99. 
“Young.—Differs from the adult in being slightly duller in color, in 
having the quills externally washed with olive, and the breast and abdomen 
obscured by hoary whitish edgings to the feathers.” (Sharpe.) 
“Enomously abundant in the reeds about Lake Naujan in Mindoro, 
but a shy bird, and one not easily obtained except by snaring.” (Bourns 
and Worcester MS.) 
Subfamily FULICIN 4. 
Genus FULICA Linneus, 1758. 
Anterior toes with a number of rounded lobes on each side; frontal 
shield rounded. 
72. FULICA ATRA Linnzus. 
BLACK COOT. 
Fulica atra LINN&ws, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 152; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 210; Hand-List (1899), 1, 109; Oates, Cat. 
Birds’ Eggs (1901), 1, 129; McGregor and WorcESTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 19. 
U-luc’ di-a-blo, Manila. 
Luzon (Heriot, McGregor). Europe, Indian Peninsula, Mediterranean coun: 
tries, northern and central Asia, China, Java, Sumatra, Celebes. 
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