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 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.

Basilan (McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor); Cebu (Everett); Guimaras (Bourns & Worcester); Leyte (Everett); Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Bourns & Worcester); Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester); Negros (Keay); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Whitehead). Europe, Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius.

Adult male.—General color dark slaty gray; head, neck, chin, and throat black shaded into slate-gray posteriorly; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and inner wing-feathers dark olive-brown; feathers on middle of abdomen more or less fringed with white; several long flank feathers with long white stripes on outer webs; crissum black; under tail-coverts pure white; wings blackish; edge of wing and of first primary white; under wing-coverts and axillars blackish with white tips; tail blackish. “Frontal shield and two-thirds of the bill deep lake-red, and tip of the latter greenish yellow for about one-third; legs olive-green, the broad scaling on the fore part of the tarsus, and the scales of the upper part of the toes, lemon-yellow; joint of heel dusky olive-green, with a shade of lemon-yellow immediately below the garter, which is dark lake-red; iris reddish.” (Sharpe.) Two males from Bohol measure: Wing, 157, 162; tail, 70, 73; bill from posterior margin of frontal shield, 43, 45; bill from nostril, 15, 16; tarsus, 52; middle toe with claw, 76, 77.

Adult female.—Similar to the male but smaller. A female from Basilan measures: 292 in length; wing, 138; tail, 63; culmen from posterior margin of frontal shield, 37; bill from nostril, 14; bill from gape, 27; tarsus, 49; middle toe with claw, 74.

Young.—Above richer brown, top of head washed with brown; below lighter than adult; chin, upper throat, and sides of face white mixed more or less with brown and dark gray; feathers on rest of under parts more or less fringed with brown and white; middle of abdomen pure white.

“The eggs of the moorhen are normally of a broad oval form and have a small amount of gloss. The ground-color varies much, being creamy white, pale greenish white, pale buff or pinkish buff. The markings consist of specks, spots, and bold blotches of deep reddish brown, and a few underlying pale purple spots. The combinations in which these markings occur are numerous. In some, the markings are all small and densely set over the shell; in others, spots are combined with huge blotches which are often confluent. As a rule the larger end of the egg is more thickly marked than the other parts. A few specimens are devoid of all markings except some pale purple blotches. Examples vary from 39.3 to 55 in length and from 27.9 to 36 in breadth.” (Oates.)

Four eggs collected by Whitehead in Samar, August 25, 1896, are thus described: “The eggs are perfectly similar to those laid by European moorhens, but the number of eggs in the clutch, as well as their relatively smaller size, is noteworthy. Measurements 42 by 39.” (Grant and Whitehead.)