PUEPLE GALLINULE. 



PORPHYRIO C^ERULEUS (Vandelli). 



Fulica caerulea, Vandelli, Flor. et Faun. Lusit. i. p. 37 (1780). 

 Porphyrio veterum, Dresser, vii. p. 299. 



This species is accorded a place by Lord Lilford in 

 his ' Birds of Northamptonshire ' (vol. i. p. 328), from the 

 fact of a living bird having been brought to him in 

 June 1890, which was caught on the London and North- 

 western Railway near Wellingborough, and lived for 

 seven or eight years in the aviaries at Lilford. Lord 

 Lilford gives his reasons for considering that the bird 

 was not likely to have escaped from captivity. 



The home of this species is in the countries bordering 

 the shores of the western part of the Mediterranean. 



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