172 



Backh. Ibis, 1887, p. 74; Seeb. t. c. p. 180 (Liu-kiu) ; Tait, t. c. 



p. 383 (Portugal: breeding) ; McGregor, Sir. F. x. p. 441 (1887 : 



S. Maliratta country) ; Reid, Ibis, 1888, p. 76 (Gran Canaria) ; 



Guillem. t. c. p. 110 (Cyprus); Hume, Sir. F. xi. p. 328 (1888: 



Manipur) ; iSalvad. Ann. Mus. Getwv. (2) iv. p. 313 (1888: Slioa) ; 



Koenig, J. f. 0. 1888, p. 275 (Tunis) ; Pleske, Mem. Acad. St. 



Petersb. (7) xxxvi. p. 48 (Tschinas) ; Reichen. Syst. Terz. Vog. 



Deutschl. p. 43 (1889) ; Gigl. Avif. Ital. \st Resoc. p. 548 (1889) ; 



St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 178 (Candaliar) ; Lilford, t. c. p. 337 



(Cyprus) ; Oates, ed. Hume's I^ests Hf Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 389 



(iP'JO); Koeni(i,J.f. 0. 1890, pp. 313,454 (Madeira); Seeb. B. 



Japan.: Fm]}. "p- 3C0 (1890); Meade-Waldo, Ibis, 1890, p. 429 



(Teuerifi'e) ; Brusijia, Orn. Croat, p. 84 (1890) ; Steere, List 



Mamm. ^' B. Pliilipp. p. 25 (1890 : Luzon) ; Frivaldsky, Av. 



Ilunfi. p. 154 (1891) ; Reiser, Vogelsamml. landesm. Sarajero, 



p. ll's (1891); Styan, Ibis, 1891, pp. 329, 501 (Yangtze basin: 



breeding) ; Sharpe, Rep. 2nd Yark. Miss., Aves, p. I46 (1891 : 



Cashmere) ; Gdtke, Voqeliv. Helgoland, p. 533 (1S91) ; Socage, 



Jorn. Lisb. (2) ii. p. 84 (1891). 

 Gallinula fusca, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 771 (1790) ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 407 (1817) ; Brehm, Yog. Deutschl. p. 705 



(18.31). 

 Gallinula fistulans, Yieill. N. Diet, d'llist. Nat. xii. p. 405 (1817) ; 



Brehm, Yog. Deutschl. p. 705 (1831). 

 Gallinula orientalis, Horsf. Tr. Z. S. xiii. p. 195 (1820) ; Raffl. t. c. 



p. 329 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 342 (1874) ; Blasius, J.f. 0. 1884, 



p. 218 (S.E. ]?orneo : breeding) ; Everett, Joivrn. Straits Br. R. 



Asiat. Soc. 1889, p. 202 ; Yorderm. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 



xlix. p. 416 (1889: Sumatra). 

 Crex cbloropus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 79 (1823). 

 ? Gallinula ardesiaca, Yieill. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 173, pi. 208 (1825). 

 Rallus cbloropus, Savi, Orn. To.se. ii. p. 382 (1829). 

 Stagnicola cbloropus, Brehm, Yof/. Deutschl. p. 706 (1831) ; Radde, 



Orn. Cauc. p. 378 (1884) ; id. Oralis, iii. p. 496 (1887). 

 Stagnicola septentrionalis, Brehm, Yog. Deutschl. p. 704 (1831). 

 Staguicola minor, Brehm, t. c. p. 706 (1831). 

 Gallinula flavipes, Brehm, t. c. p. 705 (1831). 

 Gallinula akool (72ec Sykes), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 206 (1840). 

 The Moor-Hen, Yarr. Hist. Br. B. iii. p. 28 (1843). 

 Gallinula parvifrons, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 180 (1843). 

 Gallinula burnesi, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxiii. p. 737 (1854) ; Jerd. 



B. Ind. p. 719 (1864) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 171 ; Hume, Nests ^ 



Eggs Ind. B. p. 599 (1873) ; id. Str. F. viii. p. 113 (1879). 

 Staguicola parTifrons, meridioualis, brachyptera, Brehm, Yogelf. 



p. 331 (1855). 

 Gallinula minor, Hartl. J. f. 0. 1800, p. 341 (Senegal) ; Olj)h.- 



Galliard, Faune Orn. Eur. Occid. fasc. xvi. p. 50 (1887). 

 Gallinula pvrrborhoa, A. Neivt. P. Z. S. 1801, p. 18 (Mauritius), 



1863, p. 458 ; E. Neivt. Ibis, 1861, p. 275 ; Roch S,- E. Newt. Ibis, 



1863, p. 174; E. Neivt. t. c. p. 458; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 174; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 66, no. 10499 (1871) ; Hartl. Yog. Madag. 



p. 348 (1877). 

 Gallinula cbloropus, var. pyrrhorhoa. Grand. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 



1867, p. 6 ; Milne-Edwards Sf Grandid. Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois. 



pp. 241, 241 a, pi. 240 (1882). 



Adult male. General colour above dark olive-brown, with re- 



