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PURPLE 
VAR. A» 
DESCRIPTION. 
Var. B. 
DESCRIPTION. 
PLace. 
GALLINULE 
Genus LXXX. GALLINULE. 
N° 1. Purple G. Var. B. 
Var. A. N° 2. White G. 
Gallinula porphyrio, Jud. Orn. ii. p. 768. 6.—Gerin. Orn. v. t. 485.—=dldrers 
lit. pl. in p. 439. 
Pindaramcoli, Bartolom. Voy. (Engl. ed.) p. 224. 
Purple Gallinule, Gen. Syz. vy. p. 254. 6. 
HIS is known in India by the name of Pindéramcoli; in China 
called Chinka: are common at Rofétfa, and other parts of Egypr, 
called there Sy/tanas *. 
Porphyrio alter, d/drov. dv. til. p. 438. t. 440—Faun. Arag. p. 78. 
THIs M. Afo thinks a remarkable variety, if not a new fpecies ; 
it is of a violet black colour: fore part of the neck blue: fore- 
head and legs red: vent white. 
[N New Holland is a fine variety of the Purple Gallinule, of the ufual 
fize, and differing very little from the laft defcribed: general co- 
Jour of the plumage deep black, except the throat, fore part of the 
neck and breaft, outer part of the wing coverts, and the quills, which 
are of a deep blue: the bill, bare part of the crown, legs, and bare 
part of the legs above the knee, are red; but the knees and joints of 
the toes are black: the vent white: irides orange. 
This bird is feen in the {wamps about New South Wales, in duguft, 
but is rare: native name Goola-warrin. 
° Sonnini’s Trav. (Engl. ed.) it. p. 56. 
