358 ruLicARi.u. 



4*6 inches ; whilst in Siberia it is said to attain a leugth of 5 inclies. 

 Indian and Ikinnesc examples vary from 35 to 38 inehcs, and two 

 examples in the Swinhoe collection from Formosa measure 3"8 inches. 

 Young in first plumage are nuich darker than adults, and have no 

 vinous chestnut on the breast. It is prolxiljly one of these immature 

 examples that was procured by Mr. Nishi on one of tlic Yayc-yama 

 Islands, the most southerly group of the Loo-Choo chain, and was 

 described as a new species under the name of Porzana phoiopyga 

 (Stejnegcr, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 391). The 

 length of wing of this example is given as 4*I inches. 



362. CREX UNDULATA. 

 (SWINIIOE'S CllAKE.) 



Puizanu undulala, Tiiczanowski, Journ. Orn. Is74, p. 33.'5. 



Swinhoc's Crake is a very small bird (wing from carpal joint about 

 3 inches). There is a great deal of white on most of the secondaries. 



Figures : Swinhoe, Ibis, 1875, pi. 3 (under the name of Porzana 

 exquisita) . 



Swinhoe's Crake is found in all the Japanese Islands, and is pro- 

 bably a resident. There is an example in the Swinhoe collection 

 from Ilakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1876, p. 335). and there is an example 

 in the Pryer collection from Yokohama. 



The range of Swinlioe's Crake extends westwaids from Japan to 

 South-eastern Siberia and Xortl^-ea^tern China. 



363. CREX SEPIARIA. 



(LOO-CHOO CKAKE.) 

 Euryzona sepiaria, Stojneger, I'roc. United States Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 395. 



The Loo-Choo Crake is as large as the Conimon Corn-Crake (whig 

 from carpal joint 5*9 inches). It is a brown bird, with a i)ale throat, 

 and tlic underj)arts l)elow the breast black barred with white. 



The Loo-Choo Crake is only known from a single example obtained 

 by Mr. Nishi on one of the Yayc-yama Islands, the most southerly 

 ^roiip of the Loo Chdo cliain. It is represented in China by a 



