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REVIEW OF JAPANESE BIEDS. 

 Mcasiirtments. 



Subgenus LIMNOB^NUS Slxdev. 

 (147) Porzana erythrothorax (Temm. & Schl.). 

 Refl-breasted Crake. 



Hi-kuina. 



1849. — GaUinula erythrothorax Temm. &. Schleg., Fauna Jap. Av., (p, TilJ pi. Ixxviii), 

 {nee Eadde, 18(i3, qnai P. mandarina). — Corethrnra e. Cassin, Perry's Jap. 

 Exped.,ii, p. 2-29 (18;V)). — Porzana c. Swixhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. ^l.—Id., ibid., 

 1874, p. 163.— Blakist., Ibis, 1802, p. 331.— Id., Amend. List B. Jap., p. 13 

 (1884).— Blakist. & Pryee, Ibis, 1878, p. 225.— lid., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., viii, 

 1880, p. 202.— lid., ibid., x, 1882, p. 123. 



There seems to be the same confusion in regard to Porzana fusca and 

 its allies as in the case of Fallus striatus (of. Stejneger, Pr. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1880, pp. 362-364) ; but, unfortunately, my material is very scanty, 

 so that my conclusions are only to be regarded as i)rovisional. 



Porzana fusca [Ealhis fmcus Linn., S. ^N"., 12 ed., 1766, i, p. 262) was 

 orginally based upon a specimen from the Philippines, and Brisson's 

 excellent description (Orn., v, 1760, p. 173) agrees perfectly with a 

 specimen before me (U. S. Nat. Mus. Xo. 77007) from the same locality. 

 It is a small bird of very saturated coloration, without white chin and 

 throat, as testified by Brisson's description, by my specimen, and by the 

 figure, in PI. Enlum., pi. 773, which, on the whole, is a tolerably good 

 representation of the bird. The vinous color of the breast i)ervades 

 the whole under parts, except the flanks, which are like the back, so 

 that the dusky of the abdomen and tibire and the black of the under 

 tail-coverts are strongly tinged with vinous. 



Of P. ruhiginosa, which Temminck described from Java {GaUinula 

 rubiginosa, PI. Color., livr. 60, 1825, pi. 357), I have no specimens at 

 hand. Judging from Schlegel's measurements (Mus. P. B. Halli, 1865, 

 p. 20), however, it is of the same size as the true P. fusca, but .seems 

 to have a well-marked white chin and throat, and the color of the lower 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts seems to differ in being decidedlj^ oli- 

 vaceous. The Indian bird {P. fusca Jerdon, B of Ind., iii, 1864, p. 724) 

 with the wing 3^ inches (95"*"^) long, the " lower abdomen, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts dark olivaceous with white bars," and which is " al- 

 bescent on the chin and throat," probably belongs here. 



