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Birds of Celebes: Rallidae. 
a. Porphyrio poliocephalus (nec Lath.) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Ealli, 1865, 54. 
“Tamaroro”, Karkellang, Nat. Ooll. 
For further references cf. Sharpe 6. 
Figures and descriptions. Temminck J; Eeichenhach JJ; Sharpe 6. 
Adult. Back, scapulars, adjacent inner wing-coTerts and inner reiniges, rump, 
and upper tail-coverts burnt umber-brown; tail darker, washed with blue; rest 
of wings, upper mantle, neck, head, and under parts blue, — palest, or 
glaucous blue, on face, chhi, and throat; darker on head, mantle, wing-coverts, and 
breast; still darker and more indigo on flanks and thighs, pale and more verditer on 
remiges; under tail-coverts white; rcmiges below and longest under wing- 
coverts shining blackish, the rest blue; legs, feet, bill, and plate on forehead and 
crown red (ad. Karkellang Id., Talaut, autumn, 1896 — 0 15427). 
Measurements. Wing 235 mm; tail 100; tarsus 88; middle toe with claw 102; hill from 
nostril 28.5. 
Distribution. Philippine Islands — Luzon (Cuming 6, Steere 5), Mindoro (Bourns & 
AVorcester 7); Talaut Islands — Karkellang (Nat. Coll in Dresden Mus.). 
A single specimen of this bird was obtained in Karkellang by our hunters 
in the autumn of 1896. It is easily distinguishable from P. calvus by its glaucous 
blue face and throat, and by its blue wings. It seems to be a rare bird in 
European collections. 
GENUS FULICA L. 
The Coots are very like the Moor-hens, Gallinula, in general appearance, 
but are easily recognisable by the toes, which are lobed for swimming. The 
tail is also shorter, being about equal to the tarsus, and the bill, at least in 
the European species which has been recorded from Celebes, is relatively shorter 
and stouter. The Coots are of strictly aquatic habits, rarely venturing on land. 
Almost cosmopolitan. 
311. FULICA ATRA L. 
Coot. 
Fulica atra (1) Linn., S.N. 1766,1, 257; (2) Horsf., Tr. L. S. 1821, XTH, 197; (III) Naum., 
Vog. Deutschl. IX, t. 241 (1838); (IV) Gould, B.Gr.Brit. 1862, PV, pi. 84; (5) Schl., 
Mus. P.-B., Ealh, 1865, 60; (6) Hume, Str. P. 1873, I, 249; (7) Butler, Str. F. 
1876, rV, 20; (8) Scully, t. c. 191; (9) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 489; 
(10) Hume & Davis., Str. F. 1878, AH, 465; (XI) Dresser, B. Eur. AHI, 327, pi. 504 
(1879); (12) C. Swinh., Ibis 1882, 122; (13) Oates, B. Br. Burmah 1883, H, 352; 
(14) Stejn., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, EX, 408; (XV) Meyer, Vogelskel 1889, 
n, pi. CXXX; (16) Oates ed. Hume’s N. & Eggs 1890, HI, 380; (17) Seebohm, 
B. Japan. Emp. 1890, 360; (18) W. Evans, Ibis 1891, 79; (19) Styan, t. c. 329, 
501; (20) Lydekker, t. c. 393; (21) Hartl, Abh. A^er. Bremen 1892, XH, 332; 
(22) De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 495; (23) Meyer & Helm, Verz. Vog. Sachsens 
1892, 114; (24) Meade-Waldo, Ibis 1893, 202; (25) Newton, Diet. B. pt. I, 1893, 
102; (26) Taez., Eaune Orn. Sib. Orient. 1893, H, 1001; (27j Sharpe, Oat. B. 
1894, XXrn, 210; (28) Helm, Orn. Monatsschr. 1895, 8. 
