262 BALLID^ GALIiINULA 



Key of- the Species. 



A. Size larger, wing over 6'0 ; the basal half of both 



mandibles red ff . cWorqpits, p. 262. 



B. Size smaller, wing less than 6'0 ; no red on the 



lower mandible , . . . . Q. angulata, p. 264. 



Fig. 83.— Left foot of Oallinula chloropus. x | 



681. Gallinula chloropus. Waterhenor Moorhen. 



Fulica chloropus, Linn. 8yst. Nat. 12th ed, i, p. 258 (1766). 



Gallinula chloropus, Orill, K. Vet. ATcad. Handl. StocJch. ii. No. 10, 

 p. 54 (1858) [Oudtshoorn] ; Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 249 [Natal] ; 

 Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 341 (1867) ; Gurney, in Andersson's B. 

 Damaral. p. 323 (1872) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1874, p. 107 ; Barratt, Ibis, 

 1876, p. 213 ; Dresser, B. Eur. vii, p. 313, pi. 503 (1879) ; Slmrpe, 

 ed. Bayard's B. 8. Afr. p. 623 (1884) ; id. Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 169 

 (1894) ; Fleck, Journ. Orniih. 1894, p. 384 ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 175 

 (1896) ; Woodward Bros., Natal B. p. 170 (1899) ; Marshall, Ibis, 

 1900, p. 270 ; Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 294 (1900) : Haagner, Ibis, 

 1902, p. 580. 



" Booi-bles Eeit-haan " of the Dutch. 



Description. AdiM. — General colour throughout black, darkest 

 on the head, slightly washed with olive on the back and wings, 



