Summary

This file is from University of Illinois's digitisation of their copy of Galerie des oiseaux. File:La galerie des oiseaux (Pl. 150) (6001953415).jpg is from the Smithsonian Libraries' digitization. There is a coloured version of this print held at the University of Amsterdam, see File:Grallina picata - 1825-1834 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ16300127.tif

Vieillot’s accompanying description from Galerie des oiseaux du Cabinet d'histoire naturelle du Jardin du roi. Tome 1, 1834. Pages 242, 243.

5ème Division. GRALLINE, Grallina.

Bec grêle, droit, un peu cylindrique, convexe en dessus ; mandibule supérieure échancrée et courbée vers le bout ; l'inférieure entière.

Narines l'ondes.

Langue...

Tarses allongés, nus, annelés.

Doigt intermédiaire réuni à la base avec l'externe, totalement séparé de l'interne.

Ongles antérieurs très-petits, grêles; postérieur robuste et très-crochu.

Ailes allongées, à penne bâtarde courte; deuxième et troisième rémiges les plus longues de toutes.

Queue médiocre, à douze rectrices.

Cette division n'est composée que d'une seule espèce qui se trouve en Australasie, et dont on ne connaît que la dépouille.

LA GRALLINE NOIRE et BLANCHE, Grallina Melanoleuca.

Pl. CLI. [sic.]

Superciliis, pectore, ventre, uropygio caudâque partim albis; gutture, collo anteriori, alis nigris. Mas. Fronte gulâque albis. Femina.

La Graline noire et blanche, deuxième édit. du nouv. Dict. d'his. nat., tom. 13 ,pag. 401.

Le mâle de cette espèce a les sourcils, les côtés de la gorge et du cou, la poitrine, les parties postérieures, le bas du dos, le croupion, la plus grande partie des pennes caudales et une bande longitudinale sur chaque aile d'un beau blanc; cette bande, part de sa partie antérieure et s'étend presque jusqu'à l'extrémité de ses pennes intermédiaires ; le reste du plumage et les pieds sont noirs ; le bec est de cette couleur vers son extrémité et blanchâtre dans le reste. La femelle en diffère principalement en ce qu'elle a la gorge et le front blancs.

Machine translation (DeepL French, Google Latin, with small amount of human tweaks):

5th Division. GRALLINE, Grallina.

Beak small, straight, a little cylindrical, convex above; upper mandible indented and curved towards the end; the lower one whole.

Nostrils wavy.

Tongue...

Tarsi elongated, naked, ringed.

Intermediate digit joined at the base with the external one, totally separated from the internal one.

Anterior nails very small, spindly; posterior robust and very hooked.

Wings elongated, with short bastard feather; second and third remiges the longest of all.

Tail mediocre, with twelve rectrices.

This division is composed of only one species which is found in Australasia, and of which one knows only the remains.

THE BLACK AND WHITE GRALLINE, Grallina Melanoleuca.

[Latin description:] The eyebrows, breast, belly, rump, and tail are partly white; throat, front neck, wings black. Male. The forehead is white. Female.

The black and white Gralline, second edition of the new Dictionary of natural history, vol. 13, pag. 401.

The male of this species has the eyebrows, the sides of the throat and neck, the breast, the posterior parts, the lower back, the rump, the greater part of the tail feathers and a longitudinal band on each wing of a beautiful white; this band, starts from its anterior part and extends almost up to the end of its intermediate pinnae; the remainder of the plumage and the feet are black; the beak is of this color towards its extremity and whitish in the rest. The female differs mainly in that she has a white throat and forehead.

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