408 



REVIEW OF JAPANESE BIRDS. 



FULICA Linn. 



1758.— Fulica Linn., S.N., 10 ed., i, p. 152 (type F.atra L.). 

 1852. — Phalaria Reichenbach, Syst. Av., p. xxi (type F. gigaa Eyd. Sl Soul.). 

 1852. — Lysca Reichenbach, Syst. Av., p. xsi (type F. ardesiacea Tschudi). 

 1852. — Lupha Reichenbach, Syst. Av., p. xxi (type F. cristata L.). 



(151) Fulica atra Linn. 



Coot. 



0-ban. 



1758.— Fulica atra Linn., S. N., 10 ed., i, p. 152.— Id., S. N., 12 ed., i, p. 2.57 (1766).— 

 Temminck, Man. d'Orn, 2 ed., iii, p. liii (1835) ; iv, p. 444 (1840). — Schlegel, 

 Mus. P. B. Ralli, p. 60 (1865).— Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 22b.— lid., 

 Tr. As. Soc. Jap., viii, 1880, p. 202.— lid., ibid., x, 1882, p. 124.— Blakist., 

 Ameu'l. List B. Jap., p. 42 (1884).— Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 178. 



1766. — Fulica aterrima Linn., S. N., 12 ed., i, p. 258. 



1769. — Fulica fuliginosa SCOPOLI, Ann. I Hist. Nat., p. 104. 



1786. — Fulica leucoryx Sparrmann, Mus. Carlson, (pi. xii). 



1786. — Fulica cethiops Sparrmann, Mus. Carlson, (pi. xiii). 



1826. — Fulica airata Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. As., ii, p. 158. 



1826. — Fulica pxdlata Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. As., ii, p. 159. 



1831. — Fulica platyuros Brehm, Handb. Vog. Deutschl., p. 711. 



1849. — Fulica atra japonica Temm. & Schl., Fauna Jaj). Av. (p. 120, pi. Ixxvii). — 

 Blakist., Ibis, 1862, p. 331. 



Also ill this case I have to deplore the lack of Japanese specimens, 

 the more so, since it seems that nobody has had a sufficiently large series 

 for comparison. Schlegel had only two Japanese specimens and Seebohm 

 the same number, while Dresser had none. The question whether the 

 Japanese Coot is to be regarded as a local race is, therefore, still an 

 open one. 



I translate Schlegel's remarks on his Japanese specimen (Mus. P. B. 

 Ealli, p. CI) as follows: 



"Still very like those from Europe. Wing, 7 inches [190™°^] to 7 

 inches 6 lines [203°^'"]; tail, 23 to 24 lines [52 to 54^^"^]; bill, 13 J to 14J 

 lines [30 to 33™""] ; width of frontal plate, 3 to 5 lines [G,8 to 11™°^] ; tarsus, 

 23 to 24 lines [52 to 54°^™] ; naked part of tibia, 7 lines [IG^'^] ; middle 

 toe, 2 inches 8 lines to 2 inches 9 lines [72 to 74"^™]." 



The bills of 9 European specimens range, according to the same 

 author, between I4J and IG^ lines [33 and 37™™], consequently the 

 opposite of what takes place in GaUinula chloropus. 



I add the following measurements from a Chinese specimen: 



Measurements. 





85755 



Collector and 

 No. 



Compton 



9 ad. 



Locality. 



Wen Chow, China . . 



Date. 



Jan. 6, 1881 



a :a ^ 



mm. 



220 



.-I o 



mm. 

 92 



