400 GALLINULE. 



3— SPOTTED GALLINULE. 



Gallinula Porzana, Ind. Orn. ii. 772. 



ochra Gesneri, Raii, 115. Will. 236. Gerin. v. t. 484. 



Rallus Porzana, Lin. i. 262. Gm. Lin. i. 712. Scop. i. No. 144. Frisch, t. 211. 



Boroivsk. iii. 102. Fn. Helv. Tern. Man. 446. Id. Ed. 2d. p. 689. 

 Rallus aquaticus, Maruetta, Bris. v. 155. t. 13. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 252. 



alter, Klein, Av. 31. t. 12. f. 2 ? 



aquaticus, Sepp, iii. p. 261. t. 127, 128. 



Der Mittlere Wasserralle, Bechst. Deutsch. iii. 271. taf. 15. 



Petite Rale d'Eau, ou le Marouette, Buf. viii. 157. PL enl. 751. Argeno. Lithol. 



533. t. 25. 

 L'Ypacaha varie en dessus, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 378. 

 Spotted Gallinule, Gen. Syn. v. 264. Br. Zool. ii. No. 215. Id.fol. 130. t. L.* 1. 



Id. 1812. ii. p. 117. Arct. Zool. Sup. p. 69. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 10. Lewin, v. 



pi. 192. Donov. v. pi. 122. Walcot, ii. pi. 172. Orn. Diet. Sf Sup. 



THE length of this species is about nine inches, breadth fifteen ; 

 weight four ounces and a half. Bill greenish yellow, the base 

 reddish orange; irides reddish hazel; plumage on the head brown, 

 dashed with black ; over the eye a pale grey streak ; hind part of 

 the head and sides cinereous brown, marked with small white spots; 

 back and wing coverts olive-brown, dashed with black, the edges of 

 the feathers spotted with white; greater coverts blotched and barred 

 with white ; sides of the head, beneath the eyes, the chin, and neck 

 before, pale grey, dotted with brown ; breast brown, spotted with 

 white; belly cinereous and white mixed; down the middle dirty 

 white ; vent and under tail coverts yellowish white ; legs pale green. 



This bird is found in the same places as the Common Gallinule, 

 but is not very common in this kingdom, and indeed in some parts 

 is scarcelv known. It is by many supposed to migrate in autumn ; 

 but we have learned that it breeds in Cumberland;* and one, in 

 company with its mate, was shot near Dartford, in Kent, in the 

 summer months, some years since. In the Orn. Diet, it is said to 

 be found in Caermarthenshire, Sussex, and Hampshire, in which 



* Dr. Heysham. 



