396 BIRDS OF THE LIU KIU ISLANDS. 



below* tlic necessary alterations as well as the synonymy of the 

 genus. 



Description. — 2 ad. ( U. S. iVa^. 2Ius., Ko. 110975. Yayeyama Island, 

 Liu Kill, Japan. J. N'ishi coll.). — Entire upper parts a dark olivaceous, 

 brown of tbe following shades : head and neck bister (with a slight 

 ■wash of raw umber on the forehead), shading gradually into a saturated 

 "mummy brown" (Ridgw., Nomencl. Col., pi. iii, n. 10), becoming 

 darker towards the tail, and slightly suffused with raw umber ou the 

 tertials; chin and throat whitish; loral and malar regions of a "hair- 

 brown " color {ibid. n. 12) with a faint indication of a light supralorat 

 stripe; jugulum and sides of head and breast of an olivaceous sepia, 

 slightly suffused with raw umber, gradually blending into the color of 

 the hind neck ; rest of under parts transversely banded black and white^ 

 the bands on the breast and upper abdomen being of nearly equal 

 width (4-5'"'"), while on the under wing-coverts and under tail-coverts 

 the white bands become narrower, being only half as wide as the black 

 interspaces; wing above uniform like the back; remiges underneath 

 blackish-brown with white oblique marks in the basal half near the 

 inner margin ; tail uniform above, and below colored like the back. Bill 

 apparently black, lower mandible whitish at tip, oUve green at base: 

 legs, in the dried specimen, black. 



^Ir. Namiye in his letter to me designated this bird as " Gallinula. 

 euryzonoidesr^ It is somewhat related to this species of Lafresnaye. 

 but it is very distinct specifically. Structurally it differs from G. 

 eiirizonoides Lafk., of which the type is before me, thanks to the 

 courtesy of the authorities of the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 in the proportionately shorter tail and tarsus. The other dimensions 

 are much larger, and Lafresuaye's bird has the whole head and neck 

 of a fine cinnamon-rufous, pale on chin and upper throat. 



* AMENDED SYNOPSIS OP THE JAPANESE RALLEJE. 



(Cf. Proc.U. S. Nat. Mns., 18S6, p. 395.) 



V, Inner toe without claw much louder than exposed culnien ; hind toe longer than 



distance liom nostrils to tij) of bill Porcana. 



b". Inner toe without claw not longer than exposed culiuen ; hind toe shorter thau 

 distance from nostrils to tip of bill. 



c'. Height of bill at base more than one-third the exposed culmen Eurtjzona. 



c'. Height of bill at base less than one-third the exposed culmen liallus.. 



Euryzona Bonap. 

 184(5. — Corethrura Gkay, Gen. B., iii, p. 595 (typo E. ceijlonicus Gm.) {nee Reiciib.). 

 1852.— Hiipotcvnidla Reicuenbach, Syst. Av., p. xxiii (type E. pectoralis Cuv.) {part). 

 1855.— Eallina Gray, Cat. Gen., p. I'JO (type B.faacialiifi Raffl.) {nee Reichb.). 

 1856. — Euryzona Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, p. 599 (same type). 



The species composing this group resemble greatly the members of the subgenus 

 Linoiobcrmis {Porzana) in the comparative shortness and stoutness of the bill and the 

 general style of coloration. Their toes are comparatively short, however, and more 

 like those of the true Rails and the Band( d-Rails. 



