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GIIINETTA GALLINULE. 
A VERY plciiii species, having its body wholly ru- 
fous, with the bare space at the forehead blue : it is 
the size of the Coot. 
GillNETTA GALLINULE. 
(Gallinula nsevia.) 
Ga. corpore rufesccnte nigro vdaculato, cnllo S7iblus cinerco-cccru- 
lescente maculis nigris, superciliis albidis. 
Galliimle with the body reddish, spotted with black, the neck 
beneatli ashy-blue spotted with black, the eyebrows whitish. 
Fulica naevia. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 701. 
Gallinula ngevia. Lath. Intl. Orn. 1. 772. 
Porphyrio UcCvius. Briss. Orn. 5. 438. 
Poliopus, Gallinula minor. Rati, Syn. 114. 
La Grinette. Buff. Ois. 8. 179. Ciiv. Reg. Anim. 1. 502. 
Small Water Hen. Alb. Birds, 2. pi. 73. 
Grinetta Gallinule. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 263. 
La Poule d'eau tachetee, ou Grinette. Cuv. Res, Anim. I. 502. 
Length scarcely ten inches : beak and irides yel- 
lowish-green : plate on the forehead yellow : the head 
and upper parts of the plumage black; the feathers 
edged with rufous, and those of the back with white : 
the wing-coverts are rufous, transversely varied with 
zigzag lines : the quills are dusky-brown, outwardly 
edged with white : over the eye is a streak of white : 
the throat is bluish-ash, or slate-colour : the fore part 
of the neck and the breast the same, tinged with 
olive, and spotted with black: the belly and thighs 
