12 Mr. J. D. D. La Touclie on the [Ibis, 



tlie rienii[)ode, which invariably tried to escape from it. 

 The foUowiiip; year only one egg was hiid by the new (^)uail. 

 The otlier bird Iiad unfortunately been attacked by a rat and 

 was so injured that 1 had to chloroform it. Tliis bird at 

 the time of its death iiad assumed an extraordinary melanistic 

 pluuuige, probably due to insufficient insect-food. I fed 

 these Quail on kaoliang and small millet, and gave them 

 besides bread and milk and insects when in season. 



195. Ealliis indicus Blyth. 

 HaUus iudicus D. & O. p. 489. 



I have an adult male of the Indian Kail which was 

 brought down to me alive from Chilifeng in northern 

 C^hihli by Mr. A. L. Hall, who had obtained it at the begin- 

 ning of May. I shot an immature bird in the crops here 

 on the 21st of September and a half-grown bird on the 28th 

 of September^ so that this Kail evidently breeds here. The 

 soft parts of the adult male are : iris orange-red, culmeu 

 brownish, the edge of the upper mandible and lower man- 

 dible orange-vermilion, legs rosy grey. 



I shot out of a ditch on the plains near Newchwang in 

 southern Manchuria on the '^Gth of May, 1889, an example 

 of Amaurornis pai/kulU (Ljuugh). 



196. Porzana pusilla (Pall.). 

 Porzana pyynuea D. & O. j). 487. 

 Porzana pusilla La T. p. 579. 



Pallas's Crake passes during the latter half of May to the 

 beginning of June, and is met with again in wet fields and 

 marshes from the beginning of August to the last week in 

 October. It is extremely abundant during the autumn 

 passage. It is said by David to summer near Peking, and 

 probably also breeds near Chiuwangtao. 



1 saw this Crake in summer near Newchwang. 



197. Gallinula chloropus parvifrons Blyth. 

 Gallinula cliloroims D. & O. p. 485. 



The Indian Common Moorhen summers in the marshes. 

 I have three eggs taken at the end of June. 



