a6o G A L L I N U L E. 



13. IN my poffeffion is another variety,, of the fame length as the 



ar. B. f5 rft. The crown and upper parts, quills and tail, a full 



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SCRIPTION. 



glofly black : forehead, and under parts as far as the vent, white: 

 the laft red : legs (lender and yellow : toes long *. 

 Place. This laft came either from the Cape of Good Hope-, or Mada- 



gascar, and was attempted to be brought to England alive, as it 

 was tolerably familiar; but it died in the paiTage. 



Kolben mentions a Water Hen as common at the Cape f, and 

 merely fays that it is " black, and of the fize of the common 

 European Water Hen." It may perhaps prove one of the va.- 

 rieties of this fpecies. 



j j Fuliea fufca, Lin. Sjijf. i. p. 257. 1. 



BROWN G. La petite Poule d'Eau, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 6. 2. 



La Poulette d'Eau, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 177. 



Another green-footed Water-Hen of Btllonius, Will. Orn. p. 314. 

 jUdrcvanJus's Italian Rail, Rati Syn. p. 116. 15. — Will. Orn. p. 319. 



Description. 'T' HIS is lefs than the common Gallinule : length one foot. Bill 

 one inch, olive green: irides red: eyelids white: the plumage 

 above is olive brown: throat, and forepart of the neck, deep 

 afh-colour, with a tinge of olive : breaft, belly, and thighs, afh- 

 colour, the feathers margined with white at the tips : under tail 

 coverts black : bend of the wing white : quills dufky brown; the 



* Thefe birds no doubt vary much in colour. I have met with them in two 

 different fets of Chinefe drawings, in both of which the forehead was of a deep 

 red : the bill and legs green : quills and tail dufky black. 



f Koll. Cape t \o\. ii. p. 140. 



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