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Gallinule

The Gallinule (also called Sultana bird) is a wading bird of the family Rallidae[?]. They include:

the Purple gallinule[?] (Ionornis martinica),
the Old World gallinule[?] (Porphyrio porphyrio),
the European gallinule[?] (Gallinula chloropus) (also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and dabchick), and
the Florida gallinule[?] (Gallinula galeata).

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