Ba AT E atx: 
Gallinella aquatica. Ziman. 109. 
GALLINULA CuHtoropus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 770. 13. 
Common Water-Hen, or Moor-Hen. Wil. Orn. 
Raii. Syn. 
wibin: I..pl. 9%. 2, Plo gi 
Common Gallinule. Br. Zool. No. 217. pl. 77. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. §. p. 258. fp. 12. 
Poule d’eau. Buff. 8. p. 171. #. 15.—Pl. enl. 877. 
Brif. OrneG, p. 3.1. pl. ified, 2 
Wrafferhennl. Aram. 358. 
Lensth of this fpecies fourteen inches, breadth twenty-one, weight 
fifteen ounces. It is a common bird in this country, frequents the 
fides of rivers and ponds, and is fuppofed to feed on final] fifh, and on 
plants. 
It has two or three broods in the fummer; the neft is ufually 
placed on a low ftump near the water, and contains feven eggs of a 
dirty white colour, fparingly fpeckled and fpotted with ruft colour, 
and nearly two inches in length. ‘The female is fmaller than the 
male, the colours are throughout much paler, and the throat is 
fometimes white; in fome birds it is grey, in others the colour of 
the reft of the neck. 
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