112 BIRDS FROM 
Poliolimnas cinereus (Vieillot). 
Porphyrio cinereus V ieillot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. XXVIII, 1819, p. 29. 
Poliolimnas cinereus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XXIII, 1894, p. 130. 
N°, 499, O, Pésing near Batavia, 11 August 1908. 
— 546, 547, o' 9, Empang Pakis, Krawang, 4 Octo- 
ber 1908. 
— 661, o&, Djélambar, Batavia, 9 November 1908. 
— 662, 663, 664, 665, QQ Ff, Batavia, 11—19 No- 
vember 1908. 
— 666, 6, Soenter, Batavia, 20 November 1908. 
— 667, Q, Batavia, 11 November 1908. 
Malay name: tikoesan. 
Amaurornis phoenicurus (Forster). 
Rallus phoenicurus ¥orster, Ind. Zool. 1781, p. 19, pl. 9. 
Amaurornis phoenicura, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XXIII, 1894, p. 156. 
Nes, 496, 497, 498, JJ co’, Pésing near Batavia, 10—12 
August 1908. 
— 650, 9, Batavia, 13 November 1908. 
Malay name: terkowag; javanese name: sri bombo. 
Gallinula chloropus orientalis Horsfield. 
Gallinula orientalis Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XIII, 1822, 
. 195. 
Gallinula chloropus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XXIII, 1894, p. 169. 
Nes, 584, 585, 586, 7, Tjengkareng, Batavia, 23 
September 1908. 
— 622, 623, 624, QQ A, Rawa Gempol, Krawang, 2 
October 1908. 
— 647, 648, oQ, Tjengkareng, Batavia, 18 Novem- 
ber 1908. 
Malay names: péroek, pellau, bawangan, mandar. 
This is a smaller subspecies of the Kuropean moorhen ; 
the frontal shield is wider, the plumage somewhat darker 
and the back and the wingcoverts are olive-greenish, not 
olive-brownish. Wing 150—160 mm. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXII. 
