25 8- G A L L I N U L E. 



IK Fulica chloropus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 258. 4. — Scop. Ann. i. N" i;$.>— Bruit. 



- COMMON G. Om. N° igi.—Muller, p.- 2 7 .—K,-aw. El. p. 358. z.—Fri/ch. ii. 209, 



La Poule d'Eau, 5r//^ 0». vi. p. 3. 1. pi. 1. fig. 1, z.—Buf. Oif. viii. 



p. 171. pi. 15.-— /Y. Enl. 877. 

 Common Water-Hen, or More-Hen, Rail Syn. p. 113. A. 1. p. 190. 15.— ■ - 



Will. Om. p. 312. pi. 58. — Albin, ii. pi. 72. iii. pi. 91. 

 Common Gallinule., Br. Zool. N° 217. pi. 77. — Ar8. Zool. N° 41 1. 

 Br. Maf. Ltv. Muf. 



Description. HTHE length of this well-known fpecies is fourteen inches : the 

 weight fifteen ounces. Bill red, with a greenifh tip; at the 

 bafe of it a red bare membrane, fpreading fome way on the fore- 

 head : irides red : colour of the plumage footy black above, with 

 a tinge of olive ; beneath cinereous : outer edge of the wing, and 

 tinder tail coverts, white : above the knee, at the commencement 

 of the bare part, a circle or garter of red: the reft of the bare 

 fpace, and legs, are greenifli : the toes flat and broad. 



The female is lefs, the colours paler, and the throat fome- 

 times * white. 

 Place and This is a common fpecies in England; frequenting every 



where the borders of rivers and ponds, where weeds grow. It 

 makes a neft upon fome low ftump or fhrub by the water fide, 

 compofed of herbaceous matter; and laysfeven eggs, almoft two- 

 inches in length, of a yellowifh white, marked with irregular 

 reddifti brown fpots, which are not numerous ; with a few minute 

 ones interfperfed ; and breeds twice in the feafon. It flies awk- 

 wardly, with its legs hanging down, and not far at a time ; 

 though it runs pretty faft; and will now and then, notwithftand- 



* Not always ; for in fome it is only grey, and in others like the reft of the 

 neck- 



9 ing 



Manners. 



