That man of foolish understanding who steals ghee has to take birth as a gallinule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

A nearby Roman mosaic depicts a purple gallinule porphyrio porphyrio, which bred in the reed beds until a decade ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia] Reference

Birds of interest spotted in the component include the hooded merganser, the sora rail, the American bittern, the pied - billed grebe, the marsh hawk, the sedge wren, the least tern, the common gallinule and the least bittern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland] Reference

Yes, yes, from a purely aesthetic point of view the herons and the rare cranes of the Everglades are far lovelier; yes, the purple gallinule shimmers more gorgeously in the sun; and yes, the common moorhens the black waterbirds with red beaks are more funny and practical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ooooooh!] Reference

Reed beds, sedges and other fresh-water species have been replaced by halophytes, causing a sharp reduction in the numbers of migratory birds which depended on the former habitat; all reed-dependent species such as purple heron, purple gallinule and reed warblers have disappeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia] Reference

The jacana invariably lays four eggs, and the gallinule, at this latitude, six or eight, yet only a fraction of the young had survived even to this tender age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

Pelicans, with their pouched throats and scythe-like bills, stood in melancholy attitudes, and beside them were the white and scarlet ibis, and the purple gallinule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Hunters] Reference

In one place he had the good-luck to raise a flock of water birds, which he took for purple gallinule and spur-wing plover, although they were unlike any he had ever seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ne'er-Do-Well] Reference

The three last cases devoted to wading birds, contain the varieties of the British and North American Rails: the varieties of the gallinule, including the European purple gallinule, the South.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

Akyatan Lake, Agyatan Lake and Yumurtalik Lagoon all belong to the same system and support important species such as Marmaronetta angustirostris, black francolin (Francolinus francolinus), purple gallinule (Porphyrio porphyrio), stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus), kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus), spur-winged plover (Hoplopterus spinosus), little tern (Sterna albifrons) and a high number of waterfowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests] Reference

= Florida gallinule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference