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70. GALLICREX CINEREA (Gmelin). 

 WATERCOCK. 



Fulica cinerea GMELIN, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, pt. 2, 702. 



Gallicrex cinerea SHAEPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 183; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 108; GRANT, Ibis (1895), 265; BLANFORD, Fauna Brit. 

 Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 176, fig. 38, (head); GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs 

 (1901), 1, 125; pi. 10, fig. 6; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 18. 



Can-nu-toc', Manila; tub-tub, Ticao; tu-yud', Bohol; tug-tug, Masbate. 



Bantayan (McGregor}; Bohol (McGregor}; Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu 

 (Bourns d Worcester) ; Luzon (Dussumier, Cuming, Heriot, McGregor) ; Marin- 

 duque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao (Bourns d 

 Worcester, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester} ; Negros (Keay) ; Panay 

 (Bourns d Worcester); Sibuyan (McGregor); Sulu (Guillemard) ; Tablas (Ce- 

 Icstino) ; 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.' (Oates.) 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- 

 (overts ashy gray, the greater series browner, with fulvous margins like 

 the inner secondaries, which have dusky f recklings 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 a 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 



