30. LIMN0B.15NtTS. 14!J 



barred with -wliitish : outer web of first primary with a number of 

 wlliti^^h spots, the inner feather of aluhi similarly marked. Wing 

 ID"") millim., tail-leathers 51, exposed culmen 'J'6, tarsus 39, middle 

 toe and claw 4(;. (Stijuer/er.) 

 Jfab. Liu Kiu Archipelago. 



3. Limnol)3enus paykulli. 



Ralliis paykulli, Ljumjh. Sver. Vet.-Akud. Handl. 1813, p. 258. 

 Crex ervthrothorax {nee T. 4" S.), liadde, Beis. Sibir. ii. p. 309 



(18U3); Bogd. Con-sp. Av. Imp. JRoss. p. 51 (1884). 

 Porzana rutigenis, Wall. P. Z. 8. 18l)5, p. 481 (Sarawak). 

 Galliiiula ervthrothorax, Prjev. Putesch. Vssuri, p. 54 (1870). 

 Torzana niaudaiina, Stcinh. Ann. 4" Mat/. N. H. (4) v. p. 173 (1870 : 



Canton). 

 Eallina niandarina, Sicinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 415 ; id. Ibis, 1875, 



p. 13G (Cheibo) ; David ^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 488, pi. 123 



(1877). 

 Rallina rufigenis, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 38, no. 10396 (1871); 



Salrnid. Ucc. Born. p. 338 (1874) ; Briiggem. Ahhandl. nat. Ver. 



Bremen, v. p. 53G (1876: Moera Teweh); Everett, Joum. Straits 



Branch As. Soc. 1889, p. 201. 

 Rallina ervthrothorax (?iec T. ^' S.), Tacz. J.f. 0. 1876, p. 202; id. 



Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i, p. 260 (1876). 

 Rallina paykulli, Ilume, Str. F. viii. p. 406 (1879). 

 Porzana paykulli, Siejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. iMus. ix. p. 400 (1886). 



Adult nutle. Similar to L. fuscus, and having red legs like the 

 latter species ; upper surface ashy brown, as also the wings and 

 tail ; head ashy brown, with a rufous tinge on the forehead ; lores, 

 sides of face, throat, and breast pale vinous chestnut ; chin whitish ; 

 sides of breast ashy brown ; flanks and thighs white, barred with 

 dusky blackish ; under tail-covcrts black, barred and tipped with 

 white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, with dusky blackish 

 bars: "bill bluish grey, blackish on the culmen and about the tip, 

 ])ea-green about the base ; inside of mouth flesh-colour ; iris crimson ; 

 eyelid red ; legs aud toes salmon-colour, brownish on the under 

 surface of the tarsi, on the toes, and on their soles "' (R. Swiultoe). 

 Total length S'5 inches, culmen 1"1, wing 4-7, tail 2-15, tarsus I'o. 



Yountj (typo of liaUina rvfijenk). Similar to the adult, but 

 duller above, paler rufous below, the abdomen white with a vinous 

 tinge; throat white; wiug-coverta much more numerously banded 

 with white. 



Hub. Eastern Siberia to China, south to the Malayan Peninsula, 

 Java, and liornec. 



n, b. d 2 ad. sk. Chefoo, China, May, June (H. Tweeddale Coll. 



Su-iyihoe). 

 c, d, e. (S ad. ; /. Chefoo, May, June, Oct. (R. Seebohm Coll. 



Juv. sk. Swinhoe), 



g. d ad. sk. Shanghai, May 1875 ( W. Pryer). Shanghai Museum. 



A. Ad. .sk. Malacca, March 9. Hume Coll. 



». cJ imm. sk. Sarawak, liorneo. AVallace Coll. 



(Type of P. rufigenif.) 



