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species described by him (see Ibis, 1870, p. 176). Mr. Scully also com- 

 pared Japanese, Chinese, and Indian examples, and found them to be 

 B. indicus (Ibis, 1881, p. 591). 



Measurements o/Rallus indicus. 





gi505 

 91481 

 01402 

 9405 

 85753 



Collector and 

 number. 



Jouy, 954 

 Jou'y, 928 

 Jouy, 880 



jouy, 71. 



Locality. 



Date. 



cf ad. 

 ? ad. 

 ^ ad. 

 ad. 



d 



Tokio, Japan Jan. 21,1883 



Yokohama, Japan . . . Jan. 5, 1883 

 Matsumolo, Japan .-j Dec. 21,1882 



"Japan" 



Shanghai, China j Apr. — , 1876 



mm. 

 125 

 120 

 123 

 120 

 ISO 



mm. 

 53 

 55 

 54 



"65 



ts a 



mm. 

 39 

 39 

 42 

 37 



m,m,. 

 40 

 40 

 38 

 39 

 43 





mm. 

 45 

 45 

 48 

 45 



Measurements of Raxlus aquaticus. 



GALLICRBX Blyth. 



18i9.—GalUcrex Blyth, Cat. B. As. Soc. (p. 283) (type G. crisiatus Lath.). 



Ig52. — Hypnodes Reichenbach, Syst. Av., p. xxiii (type Gallinula lugniris HoRSF.). 



1854. — Gallinulopha Bonaparte, Anu. Sc. Nat., 4 ser,, i, No. 2, p, 150. 



This genus bears a considerable resemblance to Gallinula, but has 

 much larger and stouter feet, with no trace of a lateral membrane to 

 the toes; the frontal plate is pointed behind and not truncate or 

 rounded as in the Moorhen. 



(149|) Gallicrex cinerea (Gm.). 

 Water-cock. 

 1788.— FuKca cinereaGMETA'S , S. N., i, ii, p. 702.— Gallicrex c. Hume, Nest Eggs Ind. 



B., I, p. 596 (1873). 

 1790.— Gallinula cristafa Latham, Ind. Orn., ii, p. 773.— Gallicrex c. Blakist. & 



Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Jap., x, 1882, p. 123. — Blakist., Amend. List B. Jap., 



p. 42.— Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 178. 

 1817. — Gallinula plumbea Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat,, xii, p. 404. 

 1822. — Gallinula lugubris Horsfield, Tr. Linn. Soc, xill (p. 195). 

 1822. — Gallinula gularis Horsfield, Tr. Linn. Soc, xiii (p. 195). 

 1831. — Gallinula porpliyrioidesTjE.sso'S^TT. d'Om., p. 534. 

 1831. — Gallinula ncevia Lesson, Tr. d'Orn., p. 534 (nee Gm., 1788). 

 1840. — Ballua rufescena Jerdon, Madras J. L. and Sc, xii (p. 205). 



