388 ALECTOEIDES. 



or sepia-brown above ; broad longitudinal stripes on the flanks, lateral feathers of the crissum, 

 and border of the wing, white. Bill and frontal shield (in adnlt) bright red, the end of the former 

 yellowish green ; legs and feet green (in life), the upper part of the tibia scarlet. 



A. Frontal shit-ld rounded or pointed posteriorly. 



1. G. chloropus.i Wing, 6.60-7 .00 inches; culnien, including frontal shield, 1.50-l.Vu ; 



tarsus, 1.90-2.00 ; middle toe, 2.25. Back greenLsh olive. Hub. PaLtarctic Kegion. 



B. Frontal shield truncate posteriorly. 



2. G. galeata. Wing, 6.85-7.25 inches ; bill, from end of frontal shield, 1.70-1.85 ; tarsus, 



2.10-2.31) ; middle toe, 2.50-2.60. Back, scapulars, and rump, dark sepia-brown (more 

 olivaceous anteriorly), distinctly different from the clear plumbeous of the lower parts ; 

 lateral leathers of the crissum entirely pure wliite. Hab. North and Middle, and much 

 of South, America, and West Indies. 



3. G. Garmaui.- Wing, 9.10 inches ; bill, from end of frontal shield, 1.90; tarsus, 2.G0 ; 



uiiddle toe, 2.80. Back dark slate, slightly tinged with dark sooty brown, not distinctly 

 different from the dark slaty plumbeous of the lower parts ; lateral feathers of the crissum 

 bordered with blackish slate. Hab. Vicinity of Lake Titicaca, Peru. 



Gallinula galeata. 



THE FLOKIDA GALLINTILE. 



Crcx galeata, LiCHT. Verz. Doubl. 1823, 80, no. 826. 



Gallinula ijalcata, Bo^wv. Am. Om. IV. 1832, 128. — NuTT. Man. II. 1834, 221. — C.\ss. in Baird's 



B. N. Am. 1858, 752. — B.\inD, B. N. Am. 1859, no. 560. — Coue.s, Key, 1872, 275 ; Check 



List, 1873, no. 472 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 684 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 540. — Ridgw. Norn. N. Am. B. 



1881, no. 579. 

 Gallinula chloropus, Bonap. Synop. 1828, 336 (nee Lath.). — Aud. Oni. Biog. III. 1835, 330, 



pb 224 ; Synop. 1839, 210 ; B. Am. V. 1842, 132, pi. 304. 



Hab. The whole of tropical and temperate America, north to Canada, south to Brazil and 



Chili. 



Sp. Char. Adult : Frontal plate large, obovate, truncated or slightly convex posteriorly, fiat 

 and smooth, or tumid and corrugated. Bill shorter than the head, rather thick, compressed. 

 Head, neck, and entire lower parts dark plumbeous, with a bluish cinereous cast, frei^uently nearly 

 black on the head and neck, aud generally lighter (in autumnal and winter specimens quite white) 

 on the abdomen. Crissum white, the middle feathers black ; feathers of tlie flanks widely edged 

 with white, producing broad stripes ; edge of the wing and edge of outer primary white. Upper 

 parts dark russet-, or sepia-brown, darker on the rump. Bill and frontal shield bright scarlet in 

 life, the end of the former greenish yellow or bright yellow ; iris brown ; legs and feet yellowish 

 green, the joints ashy blue ; upper part of tlie naked tilling scarlet. Young: Similar, luit frontal 

 shield rudimentary, the bill brownish, paler at the tip; the whole lower parts suftused with 

 whitish, and the head mixed with the same, particularly the throat, which is sometimes wholly 



1 Gallinula chloiiopus. The European Gallinule or Moor-hen. 



Fulica chloropus, LiNX. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 152 ; ed. 12, 1766, 258. 



Gallinula chloropus, Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 1790, 770. — Naum. Vog. Deutschl. IX. 1838, 587, 

 pi. 240. — BuXAP. Comp. List, 1838, 53. — Keys. & Blas. Wirb. Eur. 1840, 68.— 

 Macgill. Man. II. 117. —Gray, Geu. B. III. 1849, 599 ; Cat. Brit. B. 1863, ISO. 



Starjnicola scptentrionaUs, BnEUM, Vog. Deutschl. 1831, 704. 



Fulica fusca, GiviEL. S. N. I. 1788, 697. 



Ftdica maculata, Gmel. t. c. 701. 



Fulica flavipes and F. fistulans, Gmel. t. c. 702. 



Common Gallinuh, Penn. Brit. Zool. II. 1812, 121, pi. 22, up. fig. ; et Aucx. 



Moor-hcn, Yare. Bp.it. B. ed. 2, III. 114, fig. ; ed. 3, III. 129, fig. ; et Aucx. 

 ^ Gallinula Gahmaxi. Garman's Gallinulc. 



Gallinula Garmani, Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. III. July, 1876, 357 (Lake Titicaca). 



