MOURNFUL GALLINULE. 
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pale rufous : the sides transversely barred with black 
and white: the tail is coloured like the wings, but 
the two middle feathers have both margins white: 
it is rounded in shape : the legs are dirty green : toes 
long. Inhabits Italy, about Bologna and Milan: at 
the former place called Grinetta. 
MOURNFUL GALLINULE. 
(Gallinula lugubris.) 
Ga. plumbeo-nigrescens, tectricihiis et plumis dorsalibus margini- 
bus 2^Midioribus, remigibusj^uscescentibiis, margine alarum an- 
teriore albo. 
Blackish lead- coloured Crake^, with the coverts aud dorsal feathers 
edged with paler, the quills brownish;, the anterior margin of 
the wing white. 
Gallinula lugubris. Hors. Linn. Trans, xiii. 195. 
Length twenty inches : the back of a dusky lead- 
colour, glossed with brownish: the feathers of the 
vent transversely fasciated with white : the abdomen 
marked with very delicate brownish fascice : the shoul- 
ders paler and fasciated with white: the secondary 
quill pale, and edged with brown. Inhabits Java : 
called Bonlod. 
