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Genus LIMNOBiENUS, Simdev. 



Limnobsenus fuscus {Linn.). 



Porzana fusca, Stvi7ih. Ibis, 1863, p. 426 ; Hume ^ Marsh. Game Birds 

 Ind. ii. p. 217 (1879) ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 769 (1880) ; Oates ed. 

 Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 396 (1890). 



Limnobajnus fuscus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 146 (1894) ; id. 

 Hand-l. i. p. 105 (1899). 



The single egg of the Ruddy Crake in the Collection is of an 

 elliptical form, has little gloss, and is of a pinkish-white colour, 

 rather delicately speckled and blotched with reddish brown and 

 underlying pale purple. It measures 1-14 by -85. 



1. Formosa {H. Stvinhoe). Seebobm Coll. 



Genus AMAURORNIS, Eeichenb. 



Amaurornis olivacea (Meyen). 



Amaurornis olivacea, Steere, List Mamm. e^ Birds Philipp. p. 26 (1890) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 153 (1894) ; Grant Sf Whitehead, 

 Ibis, 1898, p. 247 ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 106 (1899). 



The eggs of the Philippine Crake are of a broad oval form, and 

 they have but little gloss. The ground is creamy white, and this 

 is spotted, streaked and blotched, more thickly at the larger end 

 than elsewhere, with reddish brown and underlying pale purple. 

 Two examples measure respectively : l"6o by 1'22 ; 1'55 by 1-13. 



2. Siquijor, Philippine Islands. Steere Exped. 



Amaurornis akool {Syhes). 



Porzana akool, Hume ^ Marsh. Game Birds Ind. ii. p. 225 (1879), iii. 



App. pi. iii. (1880) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 396 



(1890J; Barnes, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vi. p. 139, pi. — . lig. 908 



(1891). 

 Amaurornis akool, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. loo (1894) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 106 (1899). 



The eggs of the Brown Crake are normally of a broad oval form, 

 and they have but little gloss. The ground is creamy white, and 

 this is covered with streaky markings of a reddish-brown colour, 

 which are more frequent at the larger end and often form a con- 

 fluent cap. Sometimes the markings attain the dimensions of large 

 blotches, but as a rule they consist of streaks of small size. The 

 imderlying markings are of the usual pale purple type. Specimens 

 measure from 1-4 to 1-57 in length, and from I to I-I5 in breadth. 



3. Mongphoo, Sikhim, Srd June Hume Coll. 



{J. Gnnwiie). 

 1. Sikhim Terai, 22nd July (J. G.). Hume Coll. 



