MOOR- HEN. 
235 
Galliniila chloropis, MacgUl. Brit. B. i''- 547 ( 5 ^ 
Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 313, pl - 503 ^ 
List Brit. B. p. 151 (1883) ; Saunders /' '• 
B iii. p. 164 (1883); Seebohm, Hist, Brit. B. P - 557 
(1884) f Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 503 (1889) ; Lilford, 
Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xix. (1891); Sharpe, Cat. B. B . 
Mus. xxiii. p. 171 (1894). 
(Plate CXIX.) 
Adult Male.— General colour above dark olive-brown, with 
reflections of ruddy brown; scapulars like the back; wmg- 
coverts slightly more ashy and washed with olive-brown, 
Suedally towards the ends; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 
and quills blackish-brown, externally washed with ashy-brown 
the Sr bastard wing-feathers and first primary externally 
H wlih white- the innermost secondaries more ruddy 
£n Ind wSed with olive like the back; tail-feathers 
blackish with a slight wash of olive-brown ; crown of head and 
Ses of’face blackish, fading off into dark slaty-grey on the 
sides of the neck and hind-neck ; throat also blackish, fading 
off into dark slaty grey, the same as the rest of the under 
surface ; the lower flanks washed with brown, the sides of the 
body broadly streaked with white, which occupies the greater 
part^of the outer feathers; abdomen more or less varied with 
white edges to the feathers ; under tail-coverts white, with the 
S hers of the vent and the long median tail-coverts black ; 
unTr wing-coverts and axillaries ashy-grey, tipped with white, 
the bend of the wing edged with white ; frontal shield and two- 
thirds of the bill deep lake-red, the tip of the latter greenish- 
vellow for about one-third ; legs olive-green, the broad scaling 
on the fore part of the tarsus, and the scales on the upper part 
of the toes femon-yellow ; joint of heel dusky olive-green, with 
a shade of lemon-yellow immediately below the garter, which is 
dark lake-red; iris reddish. lotal length, 12 5 inches, 
culmen, with frontal shield, rSSl '/ing, 7-3; tail, 2-9; tarsus, 
I- 85 ; middle toe and claw, 2-95. 
Adult Femaie.-Similar to the male in colour, but haying the 
white streaks on the flanks not quite so broad. Total length, 
II- 5 inches; wing, 6 '4. 
