264 NEW-YORK FAUNA — BIRDS. 



extensive. Third quill longest. Hind toe bearing on the ground with several joints. Toes 



entirely divided. 

 A. scolopaceus, Vieilx. (Bon. Am. Orn. VoL 4, pi. 26. Aud.B. of A. Vol. 5, p. 181, pi. 312.) 

 Brown, glossed with green. Feathers of the head and neck longitudinally marked in their centres 

 •with white. Rump, quills and tail chocolate-brown, unspotted. Length, 24*0. Florida, and 

 Tropical America. Accidental in New-Jersey. 



GENUS GALLINULA. Brisson. 



Bill shorter than the head, straight, compressed, convex above : base of the upper mandible 

 spreading out into a naked space advancing on the forehead. Nostrils lateral, medial, oblong- 

 linear. Toes four ; the anterior very long and cleft, to the base, bordered by a narrow 

 entire membrane. First quill shorter than the fifth ; second and third longest. 



THE FLORIDA GALLINULE. 



Gallinula galeata. 



plate cv. fig.s34. 



(COLLECTION OF H. C. DE RHAM.) 



Gallinula chloropus. Bonaparte, Aid. Orn. Vol. 4, p. 128, pi. 27, fig. 1 (adult). 



G. galeata, Lichtenstein. Temminck, Vol. 2, p. 696 (note). Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, p. 52. 



G. chloropus. Audubon, B. of A. Vol. 5, p. 132, pi. 304. Giraud, Birds of Long island, p. 197. 



Characteristics. Frontal cere very long, quadrate. Middle toe 2  8. A red circle round 

 the tibia. Central under tail-coverts brown. Adult, dark reddish brown. 

 Young, brownish olive ; beneath whitish. Length, 14* 0. 



Description. General color dark sooty brown. Head and neck darker : shoulder and ex- 

 ternal edge of the wing white. Beneath bluish ash. Lateral under tail-coverts pure white : 

 shafts of the quills black ; outer web of the first quill white. Bill and naked space on the 

 forehead red ; the former yellow towards the tip. Young : chin and upper part of the throat 

 white, mottled below with dusky. Length, 14 '0. 



This is a rare visitor from the South to our shores. It has hitherto been confounded with 

 the chloropus of Europe, to which it is closely allied. It ranges from Mexico to Massachu- 

 setts, and is a winter resident from Carolina southwardly. It has been observed in Ohio. 



(EXTRA-LIM1TAL ) 



G. martinica, Gm. (Atjd. B. of A. Vol.5, p. 128, pi. 303.) Lower wing-coverts blue. All the 

 under tail-coverts pure white. No colored circle round the tibia. Adult, purple ; back and tail 

 green; sides of the neck and wings blue. Young, varied with dull purplish and dusky ; beneath 

 with black and white. Length, 13" 0. Mexico to Carolina. Accidental in Massachusetts. 



