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EEVIEW OF JAPANESE BIRDS. 



Wardlaw Ramsay gives the following description of the naked parts 

 of the fresh bird as quoted by Lord Waldeu (Ibis, 1874, p. 147) : 



S. Andaman : March 10, April 4, $ , iris reddish brown, legs greenish yellow, bill 

 pale green, red at base of upper mandible; May 7, $ . 



E. Swinhoe remarks in regard to its occurrence in Formosa (Ibis, 18G3, 

 p. 427) : " These birds were not uncommon about Taiwaufoo in summer, 

 and at Tamsuy I procured several examples in March ; but I cannot be 

 sure as to their spending the winter in Formosa. In South China they 

 are, I believe, birds of passage. Their eggs vary in shade of cream 

 ground-color, aud are spotted and blotched, in some cases only freckled, 

 with cinnamon-red and light purplish grey. Length l.Go in. [42""°]; 

 breadth 1.15 [29™"'J." 



Measurements. 



GALLINULA Briss. 



1760. — Gallinula Brisson, Oruith., vi, p. 2 (type Fulica cMoropus 1j.). 

 1801. — Hydrofjallina LACfip^DE, Mem..,de I'lnst., iii (p. 518). 

 l&iO.—Stagnicola Brehm, Isis, 1830 (p. 992). 



Moorhen. 



(150) Gallinula chloropus (Lin.). 



Ban. 



n'oS.— Fulica chloropus Linn., S. N., 10 ed. i, p. 152.— Id., S. N., 12 ed., i, p. 258 (1766).— 

 Temminck, Man. d'Orn., 2 ed., in, p. liii (InSb) ; iv, p. 411 (1840).— Cassin, 

 Perry's Exp. Jap., II, p. 245 (1856).— Schlegel, Mus. P. B. Ralli, p. 45 

 (1865).— Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost. Asian, Zool. i, p. 107 (1866); p. 372 

 (1876). — SwiNiiOE, Ibis, 1876, p. 335. — Blakist. &Prter, Ibis, 1878, p. 225. — 

 lid., Tr. ^s. Soc. Jap., VII, 1680, p. 202.— /ifZ, ibid.jS., 1882, p. 124. — Blakist., 

 Chrysauth., 1882, p. 523. — Id., Amend. List B. Jap., p. 42 (1884). — Seebohm, 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 178. 



1766. — Fulica fusca Linn., S. N., 12 ed., i, p. 2.57. 



1831. — Stagnicola neptentrionaUs Brehm, Handb. Vog. Deutschl., p. 704. 



1831. — Stagnicola minor Brehm, Handb. Vog. Dentschl., p. 706. 



Having no Japanese si)ecimeus of the Moorhen, I shall express no 

 opinion as to the correctness of referring it to the typical European 

 species. There seem to be some differences, judging from the follow- 

 ing quotations: 



Temminck (Man. d'Orn., 2 ed., iv, p. 442) says: "The Japanese 

 Moorhen does not differ from that of Europe except by the isabella- 

 <;olor of the lateral under tail-coverts ; in our European variety they are 

 white." 



