Plate CCCV. Male.
Frontal plate blue; bill carmine, tipped with yellow; head, fore part
of neck, and breast, purplish-blue; abdomen and tibial feathers dusky;
sides and lower wing-coverts green; lower tail-coverts white; upper
parts olivaceous green; sides of neck, and outer part of wings
greenish-blue.
_Male_, 13-1/2, 21-1/2.
Breeds and resides from Texas to South Carolina. Stragglers seen as
far as Massachusetts. Up the Mississippi to Memphis. Rather common in
Louisiana and Florida.
Purple Gallinule, Gallinula Porphyrio, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. ix.
p. 67.
Gallinula martinica, Bonap. Syn. p. 336.
Purple Gallinule, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 221.
Purple Gallinule, Gallinula martinica, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv.
p. 37.