Birds of Celebes: Rallidae. 7)5 



found it breeding with Porphyrio indicus in Borneo, and nesting in a similar 

 manner on 25*'' April. On the Lakes of Tondano and Limbotto in North Celebes 

 this is a plentiful species; v. Rosenberg obtained young ones about a day old 

 on August 19**", 1863, at Ayer-Pannas, Limbotto. 



f 308. GALLINULA CHLOROPUS (L.). 



Common Moor-hen. 



a. Fulica chloropus (1) Linn., S. N. ITfifi, I, 258. 



Gallinnla chloropus (1) Lath., Ind. Om. 1790, II, 773; (II) Naum., Vog. Deutscbl. IX, 

 587, t. 241) (1838); (III) Gould, B. Gt. Brit. 1862, pi. 851; ^3'"V Schl., Mus. P.-B., 

 Ralli, 1865, 45; (4) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 229; (5) David & Oust, Ois. 

 Chine 1877, 485; (6) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1877, 702, 767; (7) id., ib. 1878, 344, 9J3; 

 (8) Hume & Davis., Str. F. 1878, VI, 466; (IX) Dresser, B. Europe VH, 313, 

 pi. 503 (1879); (10) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 781; (11) Vorderman, N. T. Ned. Ind. 

 1882, XLH, 236; (12) Gates, B. Brit. Burmah 1883, IT, 317; (13) Stejn., Pr. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus. 1886, LX, 406; (14) Parker, Ibis 1886, 187; (15) Steere, List CoU. 

 B. &M. Philipp. Is. 1890, 25; (16) Seeb., B. Japan Emp. 1890, 360; (17) Gates 

 ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs 1890, HI, 389; (18) Meyer & Helm, Verz. Vog. 

 Sachs. 1892, 114; (W) Tacz., Faun. Gm. Sib. Grient. 1893, H, 1000; (20) Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. 1894, XXHI, 169; (21) Gust, Nouv. Arch, du Mus. 1894, 82; (22) 

 Bourns & Worces., B. & M. Menage Exped. Phihpp. Is. 1894, 30; (23) Grant, 

 Ibis 1894, 521; (24) Newton, Diet B. 1894, 559. 



b. Gallinula orientalis (Ij Horsf., Tr. L. S. XHT, 195 (1821); (2) Rfl., t c. 329 (1822); 



(3) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 94; (4) Salvad., Cat Ucc. Borneo 1874, 342; 

 (5) id., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VII, 679; (6) W. Bias., J. f. G. 1884, 215, 218; 

 (7) Kutter, t c. 225; (8) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 202; (9) Vorderm., 

 N. T. Ned. Ind. 1890, XLIX, 416. 



c. Gallinula chloropus orientalis (1) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 164. 

 For further synonymy and references cf. Sharpe 20. 



Figures and descriptions. Naumann 11; Gould ///; Dresser IK; David & Gust 5; 

 Legge 10; Vorderman 11; Gates 12; Taczanowski 19; Sharpe 20, etc., etc. 



Adult. Like G. frontata ad., but the sides of the body with white slashes, the legs and feet 

 dull green (not red) with a red garter above the tibio-tarsal joint; frontal shield 

 much smaller; size smaller; wing 155 mm; tail 67; tarsus 49; mid. toe and claw 

 70; bill from lores ca. 26; "bill red, tip yellow; feet yellow-green, claws grey" (2, 

 Luzon, 7. Feb. 1872: Meyer — Nr. 12155). 



Sex. The sexes are alike in coloration, but Mr. Dresser affirms that the males on an 

 average are smaller than the females, and a trifle duUer in colour. 



Immature. Above bistre, becoming hair-brown on head and hind neck; face whitish brown; 

 chin and throat white; upper breast, sides and flanks drab-brown; lower breast and 

 abdomen white; under tail-coverts buff-white, the middle ones black (Q juv., Deutsch- 

 basehtz, Saxony: B. Geisler, Sept. 94 — Nr. 14372). 



Chick. "Covered with hair-like blackish sooty down; bill and the frontal bare spot red; the 

 sides of the head blue, and the chin and the upper throat with white points to the 

 down; legs dark greyish, abiiost blackish grey; iris greyish brown" (Dresser /Xj. 



Egg. Moderately smooth and glossy; pale pinkish buff, sparingly spotted and speckled with 

 hazel brown, a few obscure marks of pinkish: ca. 44.5x31 mm (Moritzburg, Saxony. 



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