2G. PORZANA. 107 



.SVr. F. ix. p. 87 (1880 : Eatnafriri) ; Hnmo, t. c. p. SW (Cachar) ; 

 licid, Sf.r. F. X. p. 7;? (1881 : Liickiiow) ; <%«%, Ibis, 1881, p. .j!)0 

 ((Jilfjit) ; C. Siomh. Ibis, 1882, p. 12:3 (Kandahar) ; Oates, Ilimdh. 

 B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. ."534 (188.3) ; I)(tris<iH, Sir. F. x. p. 4irj 

 (1888: Wynaad); 8eeb. Ibis, 1884, p. 2«9 (Kiiikiang) ; Swinh. 

 Sf Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. I:').") (Mhow) ; Wurdlaw Bamsay, Ibis, 

 1866, p. 161 (Manilla); McGregor, Str. F. x. p. 441 (1887: 

 Mahratta country) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. .328 (1888) ; St. John, litis, 

 1889, p. 178 (S. Afghanistan) ; Ecerett, Journ. Straits Br. Asiat. 

 Soc. 1889, p. 202. 



OrtvoouK'tra bailloni {nee T'.), Dybowski, J. f. O. 1868, p. 3.38 

 (bauria, breeding) ; Deditius, J. f. O. 1886, p. 538 (Iloangho 

 River) ; S/iarpp, Tr. Linn. Sue. (2)' Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 90 (1889). 



Crex bailloni (riec V.), Brooks, J. A. S. Beny. xli. p. 86 (1872: 

 Cashmere). 



Zapornia pygmfBa (nee Brehm), Hume, Nests S) Eyys hid. B. p. 603 

 (1873) ; 'Butler, Str. F. v. p. 215 (1S77 : Deesaj. 



liallus bailloni [nee V.), Blukist. Amend. List B. Japan, pp. 1.3, 42 

 (1884); Seeb. Ibis, 1884, p. .35 (Yokohama). 



Porzana pusilla, Bo(/d. Consp. Ai\ Imp. Boss. p. 64 (1884, pt.) ; 

 Tacz. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 458 (Corea) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests Sc 

 Eqqs, iii. p. 395 (1890) ; Grant, Ann. * Mag. N. H. (6) v. p. 80 

 (1890) ; Sharpe, Sci. Bes. Sec. Yark. Miss., Aves, p. 147 (1891). 



Crex pusilla, Seeb. B. Japan. Fmp. p. 3.56 (1890). 



I'orzaiia intermedia {nee Hermann), Stejneyer, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mns. 

 ix. p. 396 (1886). 



Adult male. Similar to P. intermedia, but rather paler grej-, and 

 distinguished by having a distinct band of reddish brown along the 

 ear-coverts to the sides of the neck : " bill green, dusky on the 

 culmen and at llie tips ; legs and feet green, with a yellowish tinge, 

 sometimes l)rownish olive, sometimes pale green or pale olive-green ; 

 claws pale brown : iris normally red, sometimes briar-red, crimson, 

 or carmine"' (A. 0. Hume). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0*75, 

 wing ;5'."j, tail 1-65, tarsus 11, middle too and claw 1 "O. 



.Idult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 7 

 inches, culmen U*G5, M'ing 'A-7, tail 1"7, tarsus I'l. 



Yoini;/. llesembles that of P. intermedia : " iris orange-red or 

 reddish brown " (A. 0. Hume). 



Two specimens from Calcutta in the Hume Collection, procured 

 in January, are changing into the full plumage of the adult, and 

 apparently by a change in the actual colour of the feather from 

 white to grey, as I cannot discover any moulting feathers. 



This Eastern race of P. intermedia appears at first sight to be ver^- 

 distinct and to be easily recognized by the brown stripe along the ear- 

 coverts ; but this is not absolutely characteristic of 1'. pusilla, for 

 in a specimen of P. intermedia from Nice the brown mark on the 

 car-coverts is very distinctly indicated, while on the other hand 

 specimens of P. pusilla from De(>.sa show scarcely any brown on 

 the ear-coverts at all ; and it is probably on the border line of 

 the range of the two sijccies that a transition takes place between 

 them. 



Hah. Eastern Siberia and Japan, wintering in China and the 

 Philippine Islands. aTid in the Indian Peninsula, Afghanistan, and 

 Baluchistan. 



