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Genus GALLINULA, Brisson, Ornith. vi. p. 3 (1760). 



Gallinula = a Chicken ; diminutive of gattlna = a Hen. Of. Gallinago. 



Gallinula chloropus. MOOR-HEN. 



Fulica chloropus, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 258 (1766). 



Gallinula chloropus, Naum. ix. p. 587; Macg. iv. p. 547; 



Hewitson, p. 378 ; Gray, p. 180 ; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 114 ; 



id. ed. 3, iii. p. 129 ; Gould, iv. pi. 85 ; Harting, p. 58 ; 



Dresser, vii. p. 313. 

 The Moor-hen, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 28. 



Chloropus = green-footed, from %\W(o6s -f- TTOVS. 



Resident and generally distributed over the United King- 

 dom. It occurs throughout Europe, and in Africa as far 

 south as the Cape colony. Subject to some variation it 

 it is found in Asia as far east as Japan and as far south as 

 Java and Sumatra. 



Genus FULICA, Brisson, Ornith. vi. p. 23 (1760). 



Fulica = a Coot, in classical Latin. Another form, fulix, genit. fullcis, occurs 

 in Cicero. Akin to 0a\-a/cpos = bald-headed, and Eng. bald. 



Fulica atra. COOT. 



Fulica atra, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 257 (1766). 

 Fulica atra, Naum. ix. p. 635; Macg. iv. p. 560; Hewitson, 

 p. 380; Gray, p. 181; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 123; id, 

 ed. 3, iii. p. 138; Gould, iv. pi. 84; Harting, p. 58; 

 Dresser, vii. p. 327. 



The Common Coot, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 36. 

 Atra = black. 



Resident and generally distributed in the Palaearctic and in 

 the continental portions of the Oriental Region ; in winter it 

 is common in Egypt as far south as Kordofan. 



