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reddish-black legs. The bill was pinkish at the base, black 

 in central part^ and pink at the tip. One of them was yet 

 alive, but, though it ate a little boiled rice, it died next 

 morning. Its cry was like that of a chicken in down, varied 

 now and then by a plaintive trill. 



250. PoRZANA PYGM^A (Kaup) . [696.] 



Procured at Foochow in March, April, and November. 



251. Gallinula coccineipes. (Plate XII,) 



Two examples of this new species were shot by my 

 shooting-boy. One, the female described by Mr. Slater 

 ('Ibis,' 1891, p. 44), was shot on the banks of a mountain- 

 torrent in the interior, to the west of Swatow ; the male was 

 obtained in the Taiyang hills. 



Pere Heude, when he showed me the specimen of this 

 species in the Sikawei Museum, told me that it had been 

 given to him by Swinhoe. 



r252. Gallinula chloropus (Linn.). [693.] 

 Common at Foochow in spring. 



f-253. Erythra phcenicura (Forst.). [694.] 

 Resident and abundant at Foochow and Swatow. 



-f-254. Gallicrex cinerea (Gm.). [692.] 



Very common at Foochow throughout the hot season. 



-^ 255. FuLicA ATRA, Linn. [700.] 



Foochow and Swatow in winter ; not particularly common. 



'~-256. Grus cinerea, Bechst. [620.] 



Small flocks of this Crane occur near Swatow during the 

 winter. Foochow native wildfowlers say that it is found in 

 the Foochow district, and some of them have assured me 

 that they have also seen white Cranes {G. leucogeranus ?). 



"^ 257. Hydrophasianus cHiRURGUs (Scop.). [690.] 



Obtained at Foochow in spring in partial breeding-plumage 

 and in October in winter plumage. 



X. GRALL^. 



258. Glareola orientalis. Leach. [617.] 

 Passes Foochow in April and May. Obtained also during 



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