PURPLE GALLINULE. 
PORPHYRIO CA42RULEUS (Vandelli). 
Fulica cerulea, Vandelli, Flor. et Faun. Lusit.i. p. 87 (1780). 
Porphyrio veterum, Dresser, vii. p. 299. 
This species is accorded a place by Lord Lilford in 
his ‘ Birds of Northamptonshire ’ (vol. i. p. 828), from the 
fact of a living bird having been brought to him in 
June 1890, which was caught on the London and North- 
Western Railway near Wellingborough, and lived for 
seven or eight years in the aviaries at Lilford. Lord 
Lilford gives his reasons for considering that the bird 
was not likely to have escaped from captivity. 
The home of this species is in the countries bordering 
the shores of the western part of the Mediterranean. 
[O. S.] 
