A Manual of Philippine BirdsMcGregor, Richard C. (Richard Crittenden)
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A Manual of Philippine Birds
McGregor, Richard C. (Richard Crittenden)
Birds -- Philippines
Basilan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (McGregor);
Bongao (Everett); Cagayan Sulu (McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns &
Worcester); Cebu (McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Mindanao
(Everett, Martens, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Exp., Bourns &
Worcester); Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Palawan
(Platen, White); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Siquijor (Bourns &
Worcester, Celestino); Sulu (Guillemard); Tawi Tawi (Bourns &
Worcester). Indian and Malay Peninsulas, Ceylon, Indo-Burmese
Provinces, China, Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, Celebes.
Adult (sexes alike).--Above including wings dark slate-gray; middle of
neck, back, and inner secondaries washed with olive; lower back, rump,
and upper tail-coverts dull brown; forehead, eyebrow, face, sides of
neck, chin, throat, and breast white; from behind eye a black streak
separating the gray above from the white below, abdomen and thighs
washed with light chestnut; flanks and under tail-coverts chestnut;
some of the upper tail-coverts slightly chestnut; alula and primaries
blackish, first feather of each edged with white; edge of wing white;
under wing-coverts blackish, fringed with white; tail blackish. Iris
dark brown; upper mandible red behind nostril, remainder dark green;
lower mandible pea-green; legs yellowish brown or light brown.
Length, 292 to 305. A male from Danao, Cebu, August 2, 1906, measures:
Wing, 147; tail, 63; culmen from base, 38; tarsus, 56; middle toe with
claw, 65. A male from Palawan, January 17, 1906, measures: Wing, 156;
tail, 69; culmen from base, 37; tarsus, 56; middle toe with claw,
64. A female from Basilan, December 21, 1906, measures: Wing, 147;
tail, 58; culmen from base, 35; tarsus, 53; middle toe with claw, 63.
"A very common bird in marshy regions and along fresh-water
streams. Called 'sally-quawk' by the natives from its notes." (Bourns
and Worcester MS.)
Genus GALLINULA Brisson, 1760.
Bill moderate, the culmen extending backward on the forehead to
opposite center of eye and forming a tumid shield with rounded
posterior margin; toes with a narrow fold on each side; middle toe
without claw longer than tarsus; plumage black with white on flanks
and under tail-coverts.
69. GALLINULA CHLOROPUS (Linnæus).
MOORHEN.
Fulica chloropus Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 152.
Gallinula chloropus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 169;
Hand-List (1899), 1, 107; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898),
4, 175, fig. 37 (head); Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 246
(eggs); Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 123; McGregor and
Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 18.
Ca-rab' i-tu-mon', Bohol.
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