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COMMON GALLINULE. 
(Gallinula chloropus.) 
Ga. corj)ore nlgricante, crisso albo, frontc fidvd, nrmillis ruhris. 
Gallinule with the body dusky, the vent wliite, the forehead 
fulvous, and the armilla! red. 
Fulica chloropus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 258. Gmcl. Syst. Nat. 
I. 698. 
Gallinula chloropus. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 770. 
Gallinula chloropus major. Raii, Syn. 1J3. A. Briss. Orn. G. 
3. pi. 1. 
Poule d'eau. Buff. Ois. 8. \7\.pl. 15. Buff. PL Enl. 877. 
Poule d'eau ordinaire, ou commune. Temm, man. d'Orn. 448. 
Id. 2 Edit. ii. 693. Cuv. Reg. Jnim. 1. 502. 
Common Water Hen, or Moor Hen. Alb. Birds, 2. pi. 72. 3. 
91. Be'iK. Brit. Birds, 2. 128. 
Common Gallinule. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 217. pL 77. Penn. 
Arct. Zool. 2. 411. Hayes Brit. Birds, pi. 30. Lath. Gen. 
Syn. 5.258. Lew. Brit. Birds, 5. pi. 191. Wale. Syn. 2. 
pi 169. Don. Brit. Birds, 5. pi. 110. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. 
Young. — Fulica fusca. Li7in. Syst. Nat. 1. 257. Gniel. Syst. 
Nat. 1. 697. 
Gallinula fusca. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 771. 
Gallinula minor. Briss. Orn. 6. 6. 
Rallus Italorum Aldrovandi. Baii, Syu. 116, 
La Poulette d'eau. Biff. Ois. 8. \ 77. 
Brown Gallinule. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 260. 
About fourteen inches in lengtii : the base of tlic 
beak and the broad frontal phite are bright red ; the 
tip of the beak is yellow : the irides red : the head, 
the throat, the neck, and all the under parts of the 
plumage are of a bluish-slate colour: the upper 
