MOOR-HEN. 



GRALLATORES. 



129 



RALLID&. 



THE MOOR-HEN. 



Gallinula cJiloropus. 



Oallinula cldoropus, Common Gallimde, 

 Fulica 



Gallinula 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 121. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 

 BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. 



p. 145. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 99. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 188. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 220. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Poule d'eau ordinaire, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 693. 



GALLINULA. Generic Characters. Bill thick at the base, compressed, 

 slightly swollen towards the tip, subconic, as short as the head. Upper 

 mandible convex, with the culmen extended and dilated, forming a naked 

 frontal plate or shield ; lateral furrow wide ; mandibles of nearly equal 

 length ; angle of the lower one ascending. Tomia of the under mandible 

 slightly intracted, and covered by the upper. Nostrils lateral, pervious, 

 pierced in the membrane of the furrow in the middle of the bill ; longi- 

 tudinal and linear. Legs strong, of mean length, naked for a short space 

 above the tarsal joint; front of the tarsus scutellated ; hinder part reticu- 



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