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G ALLIN ULE. 
specific character in this tribe of aquatic birds, has been described by- 
Latham, in a paper in the Linnsean Transactions. “ The windpipe of 
the male,” he says, ‘‘has a bony bladder, and arch somewhat like that 
of the pintail duck, but the globular part not so large.” We may 
observe, too, that it adheres to the side of the arch quite to the bottom, 
whereas in the pintail it is attached to the side of the arch by a small 
portion only. 
This beautiful duck visits us in winter, but does not appear to be a 
plentiful species. It is supposed to breed in Sweden, and probably in 
Russia and Siberia, being found in those parts. *Wilson says he has 
met with it in distant parts of the United States.* 
It is said to be a great diver ; feeds chiefly by night, concealing itself 
amongst the reeds and rushes during the day. It makes a noise not 
unlike that of the mallard, but louder. 
GAIRFOWL. — A name for the Awk. 
GALLINACEOUS (Linn^us.) — Poultry, a group of birds (^Gal- 
lince, Auctores,) and (^Rasores^ Illiger.) 
GALLINULA (Latham.) — *A genus thus characterised. Bill 
shorter than the head, compressed, conical, higher than broad at the 
base ; ridge advancing upon the forehead and dilating in some species 
into a naked plate ; point of both mandibles compressed, and of equal 
length : the upper slightly curved, the nasal groove very large, the 
under forming an angle. Nostrils at the sides, in the middle of the 
bill, slit lengthways, half shut by a membrane which covers the nasal 
groove, and pierced from part to part. Legs long, naked above the 
knee ; three toes before and one behind, the fore toes long, divided, 
and furnished with a very narrow border. Wings of middle size, the 
first quill shorter than the second and third which are longest in the 
wing. The latter does not hold in some foreign species.* 
GALLINULE {Gallinula chloropus, Latham. 
Fulica chloropus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 258.4. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 698. — Gallinula 
chloropus, Ind. Orn. 2. p. 770. 13. — Gallinula chloropus major, Raii, Syn. p. 
113. A. 1 Ib. p. 190. 15.— Will. p. 223. t. 58 Briss. 6. p. 3. 1. t. l.—Ib. 
8vo. 2. p. 358. — Poule d’eau, Buff. Ois. 8. p. 171. t. 15. — Common Water-hen, 
or Moor-hen, Albin, 2. t. 71 — Ib. 3. t. 91 — Will, (Angl.) p. 312. t. 58. — 
Common Gallinule, Br. Zool. 2. No. 217. t. 77. — Ib. fol. 131. t. L. 1. — Arct. 
Zool. 2. No. 411— Supp. p. 69. — Haye’s Br. Birds, t. 30. — Lath. Syn, 5. p. 
258. 12. — Lewin’sBr. Birds, 5. t. 191. — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 16. — Wale. Syn. 
2. t. 169. — Don. Br. Birds, 5. t. 110 — Brown Gallinule, Lath. Syn. 5. p. 260. 
YOUNG. 
Speckled, Yellow Legged, and Piping Gallinule, Lath. Syn. 5. p. 266. Nos. 
19,20,21. 
Provincial. — Moor-hen. Marsh-hen. Cuddy. Moor-coot. 
Stank-hen. 
