154 EALLID^. 



Porzana moluccana, Wall. P. Z. S. 1865, p.'480 (Aruboina, Ternate). 



Gallinula ruticrissa, Gould, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) iv. p. 110 



(1869 : Cape River, Queensland) ; id. Svpjjl. B. Austr. pi. 79 



(1869) ; Graij, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 67, no. 10-510 (1871) ; Ramsay, 



Proc. Linn. !Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 193 (1877: N. Australia), p. 395 



(Port Moresby) ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 344 (Brisbane) ; Sharpe, 



Joiirn. Linn.' Soc. xiii. p. 505 (1877: Pt. Moresby); Ramsaij, 



Proc. Linn. Sac. N. S. W. ii. p. 199 (1878) ; id. op. cit. iii. p. 298 



(1879 : S.E. New Guinea), iv. p. 102 (1880 : Pt. Moresby) ; North, 



op. cit. (2) ii. p. 446 (1887 : epg) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. 



p. 21 (1880) ; North, Nests ^ Eggs Austr. B. p. 326 (1890). 



Rallina moluccana, Gray, Rand-l. B. iii. p. 58, no. 10394 (1871). 



Erythra moluccana, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. Tii. p. 795 (1875), x. 



p. 164 (1877). 

 Gallinula frankii, ScM. Notes Leyd. Mus. i. p. 163 (1879) ; Salvad. 



Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, xiv. p. 945 (1879). 

 Amaurornis moluccana, Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, xiv. 

 p. 944 (1879) ; Sci. P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 447, 451 (Duke of York Isl.), 

 1880, p. 65 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. 321 (1882) ; id. 

 Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 276 (1882); Blasius u. Nehrk. Verh. z.-h. 

 Ges. Wien, xxxii. p. 431 (1882 : Amboina) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. W. viii. p. 665 (1882 : St. Anna, Solomon Arch.) ; 

 Meyer, Sitz. Abhandl. Ges. Isis, Dresden, 1884, Abth. i. p. 55 (Siao, 

 Gt. Sanghir) ; Pleske, Bull. Akad. St. Petersb. xxix. p. 536 (1884 : 

 Ternate) ; Blasius, Ornis, iv. p. 638 (1888 : Siao) ; North, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) ii. p. 446 (1887 : New Britain ; egg) ; 

 Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 197 (1891). 

 Amaurornis olivacea {nee Meijen), Finsch, Tog. der Sildsee, p. 21 

 (1881 : New Britain). 

 Adult male. General colour above dark olive-brown, including 

 the head ; the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts rather more 

 ruddy brown ; wing-coverts like the back, but somewhat ashy 

 round the bend of the wing ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills dusky brown, externally olive-brown, the innermost second- 

 aries exactly like the back ; tail-feathers dark brown, marked 

 with olive-brown ; a faintly indicated supra-loral spot of duU 

 whitish ; lores and base of cheeks black ; sides of the face, cheeks, 

 throat, and under surface of body slaty grey, the sides of the body 

 marked with olive-brown ; the flanks clearer brown ; lower 

 abdomen and vent vinous isabelline, as also the thighs ; under 

 tail-coverts and sides of vent deeper and more sandy buff ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ashy olive-brown; quills dusky brown 

 below : " bill greenish, yellowish towards the forehead ; feet 

 greenish; iris chestnut" (0. Beccari). Total length 10-8 inches, 

 culmen 1-4, wing 5-75, tail 2-2, tarsus 2'2, middle toe and 

 claw 2-35. 



Young birds seem to be rather duller in colour and to have the 

 throat whitish. 



Hab. Molucca Islands and Xew Guinea to New Britain, Duke 

 of York Island, and N.E. Australia. 



a. Ad. sk. Batchian. Tweeddale Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Halmahera. W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Ternate. "Wallace Coll. 



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