]. RALLCS. 



orange, brownish red ; the legs and feet dull dingy pink (cold 

 weather), sometimes only pinkish dusky, or brownish fleshy, and 

 generally duskier and purjjlor on joints and at back ot" legs; 

 sometimes they are only pale dove-brown, and sometimes yellowish 

 fleshy with a brownish tinge. In the bill the basal two-tbirds of 

 the lower mandible, a corresponding stripe on the upper mandible 

 along the commissure and t'lie gape, are vermilion in adults, reddish 

 yellow or orange-red in younger birds ; the rest of the lower 

 mandible brownish : the rest of the upper mandiljle deep brown, 

 at times paling to the tip." 



llith. Eastern Siberia and Japan to China, wintering in Southern 

 China, probalily the Burmese countries, and certainly in Oudh and 

 the Calcutta district, south to Ceylon. 



a. Ad. sk. .Japan. 



I). 2ad. ;c. Juv. Ilakodadi, Mav, Sept. (//. 



sk. M'hitehj). 



d, e,/. Ad. sk. Nagasaki. 



(/-p. Ad. et juv. Yokohama (II. Pri/er). 



sk. 



(J. J ad. sk. Xinp-po, China, Nov. 20 ( IV. 



It. DavUhon). 



r. Ad.sk. V-Auion [Copt. Tuckett). 



.s'. Ad. sk. Tipperah. 



t-ij. Ad. et juv. Calcutta, Nov. to .Jan. 



sk. 



z-d'.S ad. ; e'-i'. Calcutta, Dec., Jan. 



$ ad. sk. 



k'. Ad. sk. Calcutta {E. Bhjth). 



(Jld Collectiou. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



F. Einger, Esq. [P.]. 

 Ssebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



India Museum. 



0. Rallus caerulescens. 



lilue-neckod IJail, Lath. Gin. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 234 (178o). 



liallus caerulescens, Gin. i>i/st. Xaf. i. p. 716 (17iSx) : Lath. Iiid. 

 Ont. ii. p. 758 (1790) ; Vieill. ^\ Diet. d'Hkt. Xat. xxviii. p. o-U 

 (181U) ; Grmj, Gen. B. iii. p. 593 (184(i) ; liiiclwnh. Handd., Fuli- 

 carier, Kovit. Taf. xliii. ligs. 2473-74 (1851) : Bj). C. Ii. xliii. p. 598 

 (185(J); Grii/, Zool. A)ihrk/i. lyp. 11, .')4 {ISod: Knvsna; Karroo); 

 A';V/,-, I/ji.s, 1S(;4, p. ;i;!5 (Upper Shire); Scfd. lUtts. Pai/s-Bas, 

 lialli, p. 9 (I8(ir)); L(ii/<ird, B. S. .-!/)•. p. 337 (18U7) : Gunmj, 

 Ilm, 18G8, p. 471; Firntch S; Haiti, 'j'o;/. Ostafi: p. 777 (1870): 

 (htrney in Aiidcrss. B. Dam. Id. p. 316 (1872); At/res, Ibis, 1873, 

 p. 283, 1874, p. 107 (I'ransvaal) ; Buckley, Uis. 1876, p. 133 

 (Piftermaritzburg) ; Ayrcs, Idis, 1877, p. 351; Reiclun. Mitth. 

 Afrik.GcsilUch. i. p. i. (l6f<0: Malange) ; Bocaye, Ont. Aiiyola, 

 p. 478 (18sl : Duquc de Braganza : Cacouda) ; Ilolub ^V ' ]'on 

 I'elz. Bi-itr. Oni. Hiklafi: p. 295 (1882: I'autaniati nka Kiver) ; 

 Biihrn, J.f. O. 1882, p. 186 (Kakoma) ; Hharpe, ed. Layaid, B. IS. 

 Afr. p. 610 (1884) ; Biihin, J.f. O. 1885, p. 52 (Gonda). 



Rallus caffer, Forst. Icon. iiud. tig. 129; 'id. Bescr. Anim. p. 50 

 (K^4). 



Kallus aquaticus [nee L.), Gumey, Ibis, l&jO, p. 249 (Natal), 1868, 

 p. 261. 



