Birds of Celebes: Eallidae. 
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found it breeding with Porphyrio indicus in Borneo, and nesting in a similar 
manner on 25*’* April. On the Lakes of Tondano and Limbotto in North Celebes 
this is a plentiful species; v. Rosenberg obtained young ones about a day old 
on August IQ***, 1863, at Ayer-Pannas, Limbotto. 
308. GALLINULA OHLOROPUS (L.). 
Common Moor-hen. 
a. Fulica chloropus (1) Linn., S. N. 1766, I, 258. 
Gallinnla chloropus (1) Lath., Ind. Orn. 1790, 11, 773; (II) Naum., Vog. Deutsclil. IX, 
587, t. 240 (1838); (III) Gould, B. Gt. Brit. 1862, pi. 851; (8>>*^) Sclil., Mus. P.-B., 
Ralli, 1865, 45; (4) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 229; (5) David & Oust., Ois. 
Chine 1877, 485; (6) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1877, 702, 767; (7) id., ih. 1878, 344, 953; 
(8) Hume & Davis., Str. P. 1878, VI, 466; (IX) Dresser, B. Europe VH, 313, 
pi. 503 (1879); (10) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 781; (11) Vorderman, N. T. Ned. Ind. 
1882, XLH, 236; (12) Oates, B. Brit. Burmah 1883, H, 317; (13) Stejn., Pr. U. 
S. Nat. Mus. 1886, IX, 406; (U) Parker, Bjis 1886, 187; (15) Steere, List Coll. 
B. &M. Philipp. Is. 1890, 25; (16) Seek., B. Japan Emp. 1890, 360; (17) Oates 
ed. Hume’s Nests and Eggs 1890, HI, 389; (18) Meyer & Helm, Verz. Yog. 
Sachs. 1892, 114; (19) Tacz., Faun. Orn. Sib. Orient. 1893, H, 1000; (20) Sharpe, 
Cat. B. 1894, XXHI, 169; (21) Oust., Nouv. Arch, du Mus. 1894, 82; (22) 
Bourns & Worces., B. & M. Menage Exped. Philipp. Is. 1894, 30; (28) Grant, 
Ibis 1894, 521; (24) Newton, Diet. B. 1894, 559. 
b. Gallinula orientalis (1) Horsf., Tr. L. S. XHI, 195 (1821); (2) Rfl., t. c. 329 (1822); 
(3) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 94; (4) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 342; 
(5) id., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VH, 679; (6) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1884, 215, 218; 
f7) Kutter, t. c. 225; (8) Everett, J. Str. Br. B. A. S. 1889, 202; (9) Vorderm., 
N. T. Ned. Ind. 1890, XLIX, 416. 
e. Gallinula chloropus orientalis (1) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 164. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Sharpe 20. 
Figures and descriptions. Naumann /I; Gould J/J; Dresser ZX; David & Oust. 5; 
Leo-ge 10] Vorderman 11] Oates 12] Taezanowski 19] Sharpe 20, etc., etc. 
Adult. Like 0. fmntata ad., but the sides of the body with white slashes, the legs and feet 
dull o'reen (not red) with a red garter above the tihio-tarsal joint; frontal shield 
much smaller; size smaller; wing 155 mm; tail 67; tarsus 49; mid. toe and claw 
70' hill from lores ca. 26; “hill red, tip ycUow; feet yellow -green, claws grey” ($, 
Luzon, 7. Feb. 1872: Meyer — Nr. 12155). 
Sex The sexes are alike in coloration, hut Mr. Dresser affirms that the males on an 
average are smaller than the females, and a trifle duUer in colour. 
Immature. Above bistre, becoming hair-brown on head and lund neck; face whitish brown; 
chin and throat white; upper breast, sides and flanks drah-brown; lower breast and 
abdomen white; under tail-coverts huff-white, the middle ones black (Q juv., Deutsch- 
baseUtz, Saxony: B. Geisler, Sept. 94 — Nr. 14372). , ^ , 
Chick. “Covered with hair-lilm blackish sooty down; bill and the frontal hare spot red; the 
sides of the bead blue, and the cliin and the upper throat with white points to the 
down; legs dark greyish, almost blackish grey; iris greyish brown” (Dresser IX). 
Egg Moderately smooth and glossy; pale pinkish buff, sparingly spotted and speckled with 
" hazel brown, a few obscure marks of pinkish: ca. 44.5 x 31 mm (Moritzhurg, Saxony, 
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