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Journal of a Voyage* to New South Wales, by John White, mdccxc. 

 Appendix, p. 238, with coloured plate of " the White FuHca ;" in the corner, 

 "S. Stone Delin." In the preface Mr. White says, " The pubhc may rely, 

 with the most perfect confidence, on the care and accuracy with which the 

 drawings have been copied from nature, by Miss Stone, &c. The engravings 

 with equal correctness. The birds &c. from which the drawings were taken 

 are deposited in the Leverian Museum." 



"The White FuLicA. 

 Fulica alba. 

 " Fulica alba, rostro fronteque rubris, humeris spinosis, pedibus flavis ? 



" Corpus magnitudine fere gallinse domesticse. Humeri spina parva incurvata. In specimine 

 exsiccato pedes flavi ; sed fortasse in viva ave rostro concolores. 



" White Fulica, with the bill and front red, shoulders spined, legs and 

 feet yellow^ .^ 



" The body is about the size of a domestic fowl. The shoulders are 

 furnished with a small crooked spine. In the dried specimen the legs and 

 feet are yellow, but perhaps in the living bird might have been of the 

 same colour with the beak. This bird is the only species of its genus yet 

 known of a white colour. The birds of this genus rank in the order called 

 by Linnseus Grallse ; and most of the species frequent watery places. To this 

 genus belongs the well-known bird called the Moor-hen, or Fulica chloropus ; 

 as also a very beautiful exotic species called the Purple Water-hen, which is 

 the F. porphyria of Linnaeus, and which in shape most resembles the White 

 Fulica now described." 



The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, Lond. 1789 : — 



P. 181—82. "There is no danger in approaching Lord Howe Island. No 

 vegetables were to be seen. On the shore there are plenty of Ganets, and 

 a land-fowl of a dusky brown colour, with a bill four inches long, and feet 

 like those of a chicken ; these proved remarkably fat, and were very good 

 food ; but we have no further account of them. There are also many very 

 large Pigeons, and the white bird resembling the Guinea-fowl, which were 



