416 GALLINULE. 



24— CHIRICOTE GALLINULE. 



Le Chiricote, Voy. d'Axara, iv. No. 368, 309. 



THIS seems greatly to correspond with the former, } r et differs 

 in many points ; it is only fourteen inches and a half long, and 

 twenty-three broad. Throat pearly grey ; top and sides of the head, 

 and the whole of the neck, lead-colour; breast red; top of the back 

 and upper wing coverts dusky green ; lower part, rump, tail, and 

 thighs, black; quills red, under coverts crossed with rufous and 

 dusky ; naked part above the joint and legs blood red ; the bill light 

 green, wrinkled at the base. 



Inhabits Paraguay, where it is common, but differs in habits 

 from the Cayenne Gallinule; for it is found deeper in the woods, and 

 frequently seen on tall, well clothed, trees; is also more numerous; 

 sixteen to one of the Ypacaha, or Cayenne Species. The Guaranis, 

 and Spaniards, call it Chiricote, as the note expresses that word 

 distinctly ; it is familiar, and when tame, feeds on meat and maize. 



25. —BLACK-BELLIED GALLINULE. 



Gallinula ruficollis, Ind. Orn. ii. 767. 

 Fulica ruficollis, Gm. Lin. i. 720. 

 Black-bellied Gallinule, Gen. Syn. v. 253. 



LENGTH seventeen inches. Bill two inches and a half long, 

 yellow, with the base red ; crown brown ; neck behind cinereous 

 brown ; back greenish brown ; quills the same, with rufous margins; 

 chin white ; fore part of the neck and breast bright rufous ; belly, 

 thighs, vent, and rump, black: sides and under wing coverts trans- 

 versely barred rufous and black ; legs red, pretty long. 



Supposed to inhabit Cayenne, having been brought from that 

 place with others ; but no history annexed. 



