Adult female.—Similar to the male. A female from Guindulman, Bohol, June 20, 1906, measures: Length, 394; wing, 236; tail, 88; culmen from posterior margin of shield, 67; bill from gape, 35; bill from nostril, 28; tarsus, 83; middle toe with claw, 99.
“Young.—Differs from the adult in being slightly duller in color, in having the quills externally washed with olive, and the breast and abdomen obscured by hoary whitish edgings to the feathers.” (Sharpe.)
“Enormously abundant in the reeds about Lake Naujan in Mindoro, but a shy bird, and one not easily obtained except by snaring.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Subfamily FULICINÆ.
Genus FULICA Linnæus, 1758.
Anterior toes with a number of rounded lobes on each side; frontal shield rounded.
72. FULICA ATRA Linnæus.
BLACK COOT.
- Fulica atra Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 152; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 210; Hand-List (1899), 1, 109; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1901), 1, 129; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 19.
U-luc′ di-á-blo, Manila.