128 RALLID^. 



{J. J. Audubon). Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-5, 

 tail 1"4, tarsus U'9, middle toe and claw 1-25. 



Huh. North America generally, visiting Cuba and the Bermudas 

 accidentally. 



a. Ad. st. North America. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. North America. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Illinois {E. W. Nelson : Hen- Salvin-Godman CoU. 



shaw Coll.). 



d. S ad. sk. Mihbrd, Conn., Oct. 14 {G. B. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Grinnell: Henshaw Coll.). 



e. S juv. sk. Seabrook, New Hampshh-e, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Oct. 15 {H. W. He7iskaw). 



2. Ortygops exquisita. 



Crex erythrothorax, I)i/b. ^- Pan. J. f. O. 1868, p. 338 {nee Temm. 



8f SchL). 

 Ortygi>metra, u. sp., Frjev. Putesch. Ussw. no. 143 (1870, teste 



iStejneger).- 

 Porzana erythrothorax {nee T. Sf S.), Tacz. J. f. O. 1873, p. 107 



(Dauuria). 

 Porzana exquisita, Swinh. Ann. 8^ Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xii. p. 376 



(1873 : Chefoo) ; id. Ibis, 1876, p. 336 (Hakodadi) ; Blakist. ^ 



Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 225 (Yezo) ; Blakist. Amend. List B. Japan, 



p. 13 (1884) ; Boyd. Consj). Av. Imp. Ross. p. 57 (1884) ; Styan, 



Ibis, 1891, pp. 329, oUl (Lower Yangtze). 

 Porzana uudulata, I'acz. J.f. O. 1874, p. 333 (Ussuri) ; id. Bull. 



8oc. Zool. France, i. p. 259 (1876) ; Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



ix. p. 401 (1886). 

 Porzana (Coturnicops) exquisita, Sivinh. Ibis, 1875, p. 135, pi. iii. 

 Coturnicops exquisita, Gurney, Ibis, 1877, p. 353 ; Sharps, ed. Bayard's 



B. S. Afr. p. 617 (1884). 

 Crex undulata, Seeb. B. Japan. Emp. p. 368 (1890). 



Adult female (type of Porzana exquisita). Similar to 0. nove- 

 boracensis, but smaller and darker ; with the same white edgings to 

 the feathers of the upper surface and the wings ; throat whitish ; 

 the lower throat, fore neck, sides of breast, and flanks reddish 

 brown, barred with dusky blackish, the feathers edged with white ; 

 breast and abdomen white : " bill deep brown, greenish yellow on 

 lower mandible, base, and rictus ; legs and feet light flesh-brown, 

 dark on joints and claws ; iris brown" {R. Swiiihoe). Total length 

 5'3 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 3, tail l'U5, tarsus 0'8, middle toe 

 and claw 0-95. 



Hab. Eastern Siberia and Japan to North-eastern China. 



a. $ ad. sk. Chefoo, May {B. Swiiihoe). Seebohm Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



3. Ortygops notata. 



Zapornia notata, Gould, Voy. ' Beayle,' Birds, p. 132, tab. 48 (1841). 



Ortygometra notata. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 594 (1846). 



Porzana notata, Scl. i^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 456 ; iid. Nomencl. Av. 



