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Genus GALLINULA, Brisson, 1760. 



Bill moderate, the basal portion of the culmen bent up on the 

 forehead to form a frontal shield that is rounded behind ; nostrils 

 elongate. Toes fringed with a membrane and extremely long, 

 the mid-toe without claw exceeding the tarsus in length. In the 

 wing the 2nd quill is longest, or the 2nd and 3rd equal ; the 1st 

 is equal to the 5th or 6th. 



Of this genus, which is found throughout the greater part of 

 the world, six species are enumerated in Sharpe's Catalogue, but 

 onlv one occurs in India. 



1402. Gallinula chloropus. The Moorhen. 



Fulica chloropus, Linn. Si/sf. Nat. i, p. 258 (1766). 



Gallinula chloropus, Blyth, Cat. p. 286 ; Jerdon, B. 1. iii, p. 718 : 

 Godw.-Anst. J. A. 8. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 274; xlv, pt. 2, p. 84 ; 

 Hume, S. F. i, p. 250 ; Adam, ibid. p. 398 ; Stoliczka, S. F. ii, 

 p. 461 ; Hume $ Oates, S. F. iii, p. 187 ; Blyth $ Wald. Birds 

 Burin, p. 162; Butler, S. F. iv, p. 20; v, p. 224; ix, p. 431 ; 

 Inglis, S. F. v, p. 46 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 466 ; Anders. 

 Yunnan Exped., Aves p. 692; Ball $ Hume, S. F. vii, p. 229; 

 Legae, Birds Ceyl. p. 781 ; Hume, Cat. no. 905 ; Doig, S. F. viii, 

 p. 371 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 87 ; Parker, S. F. ix, p. 483 ; Biddulph, 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 98; Scully, ibid. p. 590; Reid, S. F. x, p. 73; 

 Davison, ibid. p. 415; Macgregor, ibid. p. 441; Oates, B. B. ii, 

 p. 347 : Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 368 ; id. Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, 

 p. 62 ;' vi, p. 138 ; Parker, Ibis, 1886, p. 187 ; Hume, S. F. xi, 

 p. 328; Oates in Humes N. $ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 389; Sharpe, 

 Yarkand Miss., Aves, p. 146 ; id. Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 169. 



Gallinula parvifrons, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 180 (1843). 



Gallinula burnesii, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiii, p. 737 ; Jerdon, B. I. 

 iii, p. 719 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 171 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 599 ; id. 

 Cat. no. 906. 



Jal-Murghi, H. ; Dakah-paira, Beng. ; Jumbu-Kodi, Boli-Kodi, Tel. 



Fig. 37. Head of G. chloropus. \. 



Coloration. Head and neck blackish grey, passing into dark 

 slaty grey on the breast arid flanks, the latter with a few broad 

 white stripes; back and scapulars brownish olive; rump and 

 tertiaries browner ; wing-coverts more olive ; quills and primary- 

 coverts blackish brown ; edge of wing and generally the outer 



