Class II- COMMON GALLINULE. 



489 



211 



La Poulette d'eau. Belon av. Gallinella aquatica, Porza- z17.CoM- 



none. Zinan. 109. M0K * 



Wafierhennl. Kram. 358. 



Rothblasffige Kleine Waffer- 

 huhn. Frifch, II. 209. 



Fulica chloropus. Lin. fyft. 

 258. 



Brumiich, 19 1. Scopoli, NOo 



*53- 



Ein wafTerhen. Gefner a<v. 



501. 

 Chloropus major noftra. Aldr. 



av. III. 177. 

 Common Water-hen, or Moor- 



hen. Wil. orn. 312. 

 Rati fyn. a<v. 112. 

 Gallinula, la Poule d'eau. Br. Zool. 131. 



BriJ/bn av. VI. 3. Tab. 1. 



THE male of this fpecies weighs about fifteen 

 ounces. Its length to the end of the tail 

 fourteen inches : the breadth twenty-two. The 

 crown of the head, hind part of the neck, the 

 back, and coverts of the wings are of a fine, but 

 very deep olive green. Under fide of the body cine- 

 reous : the chin and belly mottled with white * 

 quil-feathers and tail dufky : exterior fide of the 

 fieft primary feather, and the ridge of the wings 

 white : vent black : feathers juft beneath the tail 

 white : legs dufky green. The colors of the plu- 

 mage in the female, are much lefs brilliant than that 

 of the male : in fize it is alfo inferior. Mr. Wil- 

 lughby in his defcription takes no notice of the 

 beautiful olive glofs of the plumage of thefe birds 1 

 nor that the bill affumes a fuller and brighter red 

 in the courting feafon. 



It gets its food on grafTy banks, and borders near 

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