402 GALLINULE. 



4— OLIVACEOUS GALLINULE. 



Gallinula Foljambii, Olivaceous Gallinule, Orn. Diet. Sup- with an Engraving. 

 Gallinula Baillonii, Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. 692. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half, breadth ten and a half. Bill 

 nearly three quarters, greenish yellow, the base red; irides and 

 orbits bright orange red ; cheeks and forehead dusky cinereous; sides 

 of the neck and throat pale cinereous; breast, belly, and thighs, 

 plain dark cinereous, or slate-colour, like the Water Rail ; back of 

 the head deep olive-brown ; neck behind yellowish olive ; the feathers 

 of the back have a mixture of olive-brown, and dusky black ; mar- 

 gins mostly of the former colour, the edges paler; scapulars dusky 

 black, with broad olive margins ; wing coverts olive-brown ; quills 

 dusky, the outer webs edged with olive ; rump and upper tail 

 coverts very dark olive-brown, with a mixture of dusky black ; tail 

 feathers deep dusky brown, the shafts paler, and the lateral ones 

 margined with olive yellow; vent and under tail coverts dusky 

 cinereous, some of the feathers deeply margined with sullied white; 

 sides behind the thighs olive, slightly margined as the last ; legs 

 olive. Supposed to have been obtained from the fens of Norfolk. 

 We first met with it in the collection of Mr. Foljambe, who found 

 it, among others, in a poulterer's shop, in the month of May, 1812; 

 and a second specimen was in the collection of Mr. Plasted, of 

 Chelsea, but could not learn where he procured it. 



5— LITTLE GALLINULE. 



Little Gallinule, Orn. Diet. Sup. with an Engraving. 



LENGTH seven inches; weight two ounces. Bill five-eighths 

 of an inch, bright green ; general colour of the plumage olive- 

 brown ; upper parts of the head dusky brown ; cheeks paler brown ; 



