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INDIAN PORPHYRIO. 
(Porphyrio Indicus.) 
Po. olivaceo-niger subtus J'uligiiiosiis, jugulo pectore himcrisque 
viridis, lateribus colli abdominequc purpureis, crisso albo. 
Olivaceous-black Porpliyrio beneath smoky, with the juguluni, 
breast, and shoulders green, the sides of the neck and abdomen 
purple, the vent white. 
Porphyrio Indicus. Horsjield. Linn. Trans, xiii. 194. 
Length nineteen inches : general colour black, with 
a dark olivaceous gloss : the head and belly smoky : 
the jugulum, breast, and shoulders sea-green : the 
sides of the neck and abdomen purple : the vent white : 
the frontal clypeus very broad and produced beyond 
the eyes, and joined to the culmen of the beak: the 
middle toe, with its claw, the length of the tarsus : 
the clypeus and legs red : the spurs on the wings 
short, very acute, and hidden. Inhabits Java : called 
Fellimg. 
GREEN PORPHYRIO. 
(Porphyrio viridis.) 
Po. corpore supra obscure viridis subtus albo,fronte roslro pedi- 
busque viridi-flavescentibus. 
Porphyrio with the body above obscure green, beneath white, 
with tlie forehead, beak, and legs greenish-yellow. 
Fulica viridis. Gmcl. Si/st. Nat. 1. 698. 
