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NEW SPECIES OF RALLUS FROM CHINA. 



The following table may facilitate the better understaudiug of the 



characters of the three forms, as showu in the specimens before me: 



r, 1, 1 1 X i- V 1 S sirialus, primary coverts uniform, uuspotted. 



Smaller: lower breast not barred { „„j„,.;^\ ^ ■'• ' * 



/ (JH till to m 



Larger: lower breast barred like > primary coverts spotted with white, 



the flanks jo^lfi S 



The difference in size between striatus and giilaris, on one side, and 



jouyi, on the other, is shown by the following 



Measurements. 

 1. KALLUS STKIATUS. 



2. RALLUS GULAEIS. 



9r,823 Dr. Cantor 

 15427 Peale 



ad. ' Penans.. 

 ad. 1 Malacca. 



! 112 I 39 I 3.5 I 37 

 . 117 ! 37 35 



3. KALLUS JOUYI. 



85751 

 857.52 



Jony, 72 

 Jony, 73 



cTad. 

 ?ad. 



Shangliai . 

 do... 



July 5,1881 

 May 8,1881 



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