PURPLE PORPHYRIO. 
255 
Gallinula viridis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 769. 
Porphyrio viridis. Briss. Orn. 5. 529. 
La Poule-Svdtane verte. Buff. Ois. 8. 204. 
Green Gallinule. Lath. Gen. Syn, 5. 257. 
The Green Porphyrio is eleven inches and a half 
in length ; its beak and the bare part of the forehead 
are greenish-yellow : the upper parts of the body are 
dull green ; the under white : the legs are greyish- 
yellow, and the claws grey. Inhabits the East Indies. 
PURPLE PORPHYRIO. 
(Porphyrio erythropus.) 
Yo.fronte rubra, corpore viridi, subtus violaceo. 
Porphyrio with the front red^, the body green, beneath violet. 
Fulica Porphyrio. Linn. Sijst. Nat. 1.258. Gmel. Sijst. Nat. 
1. 699. Rail, Syn. 116. 
Gallinula Porphyrio. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 768. 
La Poule-Sultane. Biif. Ois. 8. 194.;;^. 17. 
Le Taleve de Madagascar. Buff. PI. Enl. 810. 
Purple Gallinule. Lath. Gen. Sy7i. 5. 254. 
Televe a manteau vert. (Porphyrio smaragnotus.) Temm. man. 
d'Orn. 2 Edit. ii. 700. 
A HIGHLY elegant and beautiful bird :.its length 
is scarcely eighteen inches : its beak is deep red : its 
irides are fulvous : the bare space of the forehead is 
red : the head and hind part of the neck are glossy 
violet : its back, rump, and scapulars are dull glossy 
