396 REVIEW OF JAPANESE BIRDS. 



PORZANA ViEiLL. 



1816.— Porzana Vieillot, Analyse, p. 61 (type B. porzana L.). 

 1816. — Zapornia Leach, Syst. Cat. M, B. Br. Mus., p. 34 (type Z. minuta Leach). 

 1817 .—Zaporina Forstek, Syiiopt. Cat. Br. B., p. 59 (emend.). 



1829. — PhalaridionKAVP, Entw. Eur.Thierw., p. 173 (types Gallhi ula pusillaet pygm(Ba). 

 1845. — RaJlites Puchekan, Rev. Zool., 1845, p. 277 (type B. pusiUus). 

 1846. — Plialarid'mm Agassiz, lud. Univers., p. 283 (emend.). 



1856. — Coturnicops Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., SLiii, p. 599 (type F. noveboracensis Gm.). 

 1856. — Creciscus Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn., 18.56, p. 428 (type R. jamaicensis Gm.). 

 1856.—Corethrura Cassin, Perry's Jap. Exp., ii, p. 229 (uec Reichenb., 1849). 

 1872. — Limnobcenus Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Av., p. 130 (type GalUnula riibiginoaa 

 Temm.). 



synopsis of the japanese species of the genus poezana. 



a^ Wings without a large white patch, the rectrices being uniform blackish brown, 

 or with only a few small white s^jotson the secondaries : axillaries and lining 

 of wing barred or mottled with dark gray and white, 

 fci Tibial feathers gray, mottled, or barred with whitish ; upper wing coverts with- 

 out transversal white markings (or the white markings longitudinal, if 

 present), 

 c^ Back and upper wing coverts brown, with black and white longitudinal 

 markings; outer web of first primary edged with white {Zapornia) 



P. intermedia. 

 c '^ Back and upper wing coverts uniform olive brown, without any kind of mark- 

 ings; outer web of first primary dusky {Limnohcenns) P. erythrothorax. 

 [i ^ Tibial feathers pure white ; upper wing coverts with transverse white bauds, 



or waves of white P. paykuld'\. 



a* Wings with a large white ]iatch, the terminal half of the inner secondaries being 

 white ; axillaries uniform white ; lining of wing for the greater part whitish 

 ( Coturnicops) P. undulata. 



Subgenus ZAPORNIA Leach. 



(148) Porzana intermedia (Herji.). 

 Baillon's Crake. Hime-kuina. 



1776. — fEaUus pusillus [or minutus?'\ Pallas, Reise Russ. R.,iii, App. (p. 700). 



180A.—liallus intermedins Hermann, Observ. Zool., i, p. 198. 



18 -. — Crex pyginwa Naumann, ubi ? — Porzana p. Blakist. & Puyer, Ibis, 1878, p. 



225.— lirf., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., viii, 1880, p. 202.— lid., ibid., x, 1882, p. 123. 

 1819.— Eallits ftaJZ/owi Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat.,xxviii, p. 548. — Seebohm, Ibis, 



1884, p. 3D.—CTalUnuhi b. Temminck, Man. d-Orn., 2 ed., iv, p. 440 (1840).— 



Porzana b. Blakist., Chrysanth., April, 1833, p. — . — Id., Amend. List B. 



Jap., p. 42 (1884). 

 1820. — Gallimda stellaris Temminck, Man. d'Orn., 2 ed., ii, p. 693. 

 1826. — ? Eallus minutus Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. A.siat., ii, p. 155 (nee Gmel., 1788). 

 1836.— Cyfx/o//a/)(i/e( Eyton, Cat. Bi. B., p. 46 («ec MoNT., 1813). 



As to the proper systematic uame of Baillon's Crake I am iu consid- 

 erable doubt, because I have uo access to Pallas's original description 

 of R. pusillus or minutus, and cannot even find out with certainty which, 

 of the two names is used by Pallas on p. 700, vol. iii of his Reise, since 

 both are quoted by different authors. Usually we find quoted E. pusil- 

 lus Pallas, 1776. He himself, however, quotes minutus. At any rate 



