^38 
ALLEN’S naturalist’s LIBRARY. 
Meus of the Mediterranean countries^ hav^?® Gallinule, J’. 
having been captured in Eneland hnr fu recorded as 
which are ofte'n kept in caS; both species 
reason to believe tbit the soai™,,. * there is no 
caped birds, as neither ofThra are IS "i «- 
driven, from their swampy fastnesses" be 
Hen, buSherwisfStXs'S"' " ^oor- 
the coots, sub-family FULICINH5. 
from them,'ati7rom\hfolhefRai]f bT;^^ ‘^'®‘‘"g''''sbed 
the toes. There is generals a wL r ‘be scalloped lobes on 
forehead, and the bilk in some nf th shield on the 
of the brigln colours of the shield'^ ^ Partakes 
New ‘be Old and 
where they atlam their largest size. ^ >n South America, 
/r r , ‘^o’''^toN COOT, fulica atra. 
J^ulicci citf‘a, L/inn. Svs^ Vof ; 
re- P- 560 (1852) ; Dresser^’B^ ^“‘^^'’1. Brit. B. 
%■ - (t87,)f K O S L®; B* 'n "■ -*'• P'- So* 
Saunders, ed.Yarrell’s B,.>r ;" ^' P’ ^ 5r (1883); 
Hist. Brit. B.ii. p s6f/r8£ Seebohm 
P. 50 s (1889); Lilfori cL S Br^ B n ’ 
Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxifi. p (^^PS); 
{J^/a/e CXX.) 
Adult Mai©,- — Gcnpnl r'r\]/-vit*. u 
olive shade on the back • cindery-grey with a slight 
outer feathers of the hnvt', b'eoverts also cindery-grey the 
ashy-brown with dusky iips‘ S'eTrft with white ; quids 
brown on the outer w^eb^ ’the outfr ^ '"elining to whity- 
eo, ttie outer secondaries whitish at the 
