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T HE W H I T E F U L I C A.
F ulica alba.
Fulica alia, roftryi^iimt^ue ruins, bumeris 'Jpinofis, pedib u’s fldvif ?
Ccrpup magnibiffriftferv'^alUna dome/iica,’ Humeri fpina parva incurvata.
In fpiciniine-exfecatqpedes flam } fed fortajfe in viva ayes roJlro.concoldr.es.
WWfe the bill arid frrint' ired,; fHbuIders lpiried/Te^S'-and feet
.■ yellow? .’
The Jbody k, about'the fize of-a domefKc;"-' -fowl- " The --Ihoulders
are furnilhed with a fmall crooked fpine. 'In the dried .fpepnie^
Jegsfand*f^t_are yellow; but„ perhaps, .in the living bird-might haye
been“ of the fjJpng colour - withthe beak.
'.THis^bird is tHe^oixly fpecies of itsgenus yet kndwn of .a.
white colour, - The birds .of. this. genua rank; in . the bcder:
called by Linnaeus Grallae, and moft .of the fpecies 'frequent,
watery places. To this;genus.'.belongs the, wellrknown *bird;
called .the Mopr-hen, or Fulicachloropus; as.alfp a' very
beautiful exotic'fpecies prilled .the Purple Watch-hen,! which.;
is the Fulica porphyrio: ;of Linnaeus^3 and, ’which;. ih> f^ikpel -
much refembles the White Fulica now defcrihed.