APPENDIX. 
THE WHITE FULICA. 
FULICA ALBA. 
Fulica albdi rojiro fronteque rubris, humeris fpinq/is, pedibus Jlavis f 
Corpus magnitudine fere gallina domejlica. Humeri fpina parva tncurvata. 
In fpecimine exficcato pedes favi ; fed fortajje in viva ave rojiro concolores. 
White Fulica, with the bill and front red, Ihoulders fpined, legs and feet 
yellow ? 
The body is about the fize of a domeftic fowl. The fhoulders 
are furnifhed with a fmall crooked fpine. In the dried fpecimen the 
legs and feet are yellow j but, perhaps, in the living bird might have 
been of the fame colour with the beak. 
This bird is the only fpecies of its genus yet known of a 
white colour. The birds of this genus rank in the order 
called by Linnaeus Grallae, and moft of the fpecies frequent 
watery places. To this genus belongs the well-known bird 
called the Moor-hen, or Fulica chloropus ; as alfo a very 
beautiful exotic fpecies called the Purple Water-hen, which 
is the Fulica porphyrio of Linnaeus, and which in fhape 
jnuch refembles the White Fulica now defcribed. 
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