GALLINULA. 77 



McGregor)-, Palawan (Platen., White); Panay (Bourns & Worcester) ; Siquijor 

 (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu (Guillemard) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns d 

 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 (Linnaeus). 



MOORHEN. 



Fulica chloropus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 152. 



Gallinula chloropus SHAKPE, 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); 

 GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 123; MCGREGOR 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 cC- Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Everett, Bourns 

 <C- Worcester) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester) ; Negros (Keay) ; Panay (Bourns 

 cC- Worcester) ; Samar (Whitehead). Europe, Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius. 



