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FAVOURITE PORPHYRIO. 
prevailing colours of the plumage, which in the Por- 
phyrios are usually beautiful tints of brilliant blue, 
violet, or green. They feed on various articles, such 
as fruits, roots of grass, and grain ; and, while feed- 
ing, usually stand upon one leg and lift their food 
to their mouth with the other, like the Parrot. 
They are found in the temperate and tropical cli- 
mates of both continents. 
FAVOURITE PORPHYRIO. 
"f" (Porphyrio flavirostris.) 
Vo.fronte rubra, corpore snpra ccerulco suhtiis uropygioque alio, 
remigibus cauddque Jiiscis. 
Porphyrio with a red front, the body above blue, beneath and 
rump white, the quills and tail brown. 
Fulica flavirostris. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 699. 
Gallinula flavirostris. Lath. Ind. Oni. 2. 769. 
La Favorite de Cayenne, Buff. Ois. 8. 207. Buff. PL Enl. 897. 
Favourite Gallinule. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5, 256. 
Inhabits Cayenne : length twelve inches : its beak 
is yellow : the upper parts of its plumage deep blue : 
the sides of the head and neck paler : the fore part 
of the neck bluish-white : the belly, thighs, and rump 
white : the quills and tail brown, the last darkest : the 
legs long and yellow. 
