722 Birds of Celebes: Rallidae. 



a. Porphyrio poliocephalus (nee Lath.) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Ealli, 1865, 54. 



"Tamaroro", Karkellang, Nat. Coll. 



For further references cf. Sharjje 6. 



Figures and descriptions. Temminck /; Reichenbach 77; Sharpe 6. 



Adult. Back, scapulars, adjacent inner wing-coverts and inner remiges, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts burnt umber-brown; tail darker, washed with blue; rest 

 of wings, upper mantle, neck, head, and under parts blue, — palest, or 

 glaucous blue, on face, chin, and throat; darker on head, mantle, \ving-co verts, and 

 breast; still darker and more indigo on flanks and thighs, pale and more verditer on 

 remiges; under tail-coverts white; remiges below and longest under wing- 

 coverts shining blackish, the rest blue; legs, feet, bill, and plate on forehead and 

 crown red (ad. Karkellang Id., Talaut, autumn, 1896 — C 15427). 



Measurements. Wing 235 mm; tail 100; tarsus 88; middle toe with claw 102; bill fi'om 

 nostril 28.5. 



Distribution. Philipjjine Islands — Luzon (Cuming 6, Steere 5), Mindoro (Bourns & 

 AVorcester 7); Talaut Islands — Karkellang (Nat. Colh in Dresden Mus.). 



A single specimen of this bird was obtained in Karkellang by our hunters 

 in the autumn of 1896. It is easily distinguishable from P. calvus by its glaucous 

 blue face and throat, and by its blue wings. It seems to be a rare bird in 

 European collections. 



GENUS FULICA L. 



The Coots are very like the Moor-hens, Gallinula, in general appearance, 

 but are easily recognisable by the toes, which are lobed for swimming. The 

 tail is also shorter, being about equal to the tarsus, and the bill, at least in 

 the European species which has been recorded from Celebes, is relatively shorter 

 and stouter. The Coots are of strictly aquatic habits, rarely venturing on land. 

 Almost cosmopolitan. 



-f 311. FULICA ATRA L. 



Coot. 



Fulica atra (1) Linn., S.N. 1766,1, 257; (2) Horsf., Tr. L. S. 1821, Xm, 197; (III) Naum., 

 Vog. DeutschL IX, t. 241 (1838); (IV) Gould, B.Gr.Brit. 1862, IV, pi. 84; (5) Schl., 

 Mus. P.-B., Ralh, 1865, 60; (6) Hume, Str. F. 1873, I, 249; (7) Butler, Str. P. 

 1876, IV, 20; (8) Scully, t. c. 191; (9) David & Oust, Ois. Chine 1877, 489; 

 (10) Hume & Davis., Str. F. 1878, YI, 465; (XI) Dresser, B. Eur. VH, 327, pi. 504 

 (1879); (12) C. Swinh., Bns 1882, 122; (13) Gates, B. Br. Burmah 1883, H, 352; 

 (14) Stejn., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, IX, 408; (XV) Meyer, Vogelskel. 1889, 

 n, pi. CXXX; (16) Gates ed. Hume's N. & Eggs 1890, m, 386; (17) Seebohm, 

 B. Japan. Emp. 1890, 360; (18) W.Evans, Ibis 1891, 79; (19) Styan, t. c. 329, 

 501; (20) Lydekker, t. c. 393; (21) Hartl., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1892, XH, 332; 

 (22) De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 495; (23) Meyer & Helm, Verz. Vog. Sachsens 

 1892, 114; (24) Meade-Waldo, Ibis 1893, 202; (25) Newton, Diet. B. pt. I, 1893, 

 102; (26) Tacz., Faune Grn. Sib. Grient. 1893, H, 1001; (27) Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 1894, XXm, 210; (28) Helm, Grn. Monatsschr. 1895, 8. 



