230 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIRDS 
RALLIDZ. 
OrtTYGOMETRA, Linnzus. 
172. ORTYGOMETRA CINEREA. 
Porphyrio cinereus, Vieill. Nouy. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 29, “Java” (1819); Schlegel, Mus. 
Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 32; Walden, Tr. Z. 8. viii. p. 94. 
Hab. Philippines (Cuming). 
Porzana, Vieillot. 
175. PorzANA PYGMA. 
Crex pygmea, Naumann, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Rall, p. 30. 
Hab. Philippines (Verreauz). 
The Philippine habitat of this Water-crake rests solely on a single individual thus 
identified by Professor Schlegel in the Leyden Museum, and acquired from M. Verreaux. 
174. PORZANA FUSCA. 
Rallus philippensis fuscus, Brisson, Orn. y. p. 173, no. 2, “ Philippines.” 
Rallus fuscus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 262, no. 4 (1766), ex Brisson; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, 
p. 20. 
Rdle brun des Philippines, D’Aubenton, Pl. Enl. 773. 
Gallinula rubiginosa, Temm. Pl. Col. 357, “ Java” (1825). 
Hab. Philippines (Cuming). 
An adult Philippine example, obtained by Cuming, is preserved in the Leyden 
Museum; and with it Professor Schlegel (/. c.) identifies imdividuals from Borneo, 
Java, and Sumatra. From Javan examples I am unable to distinguish Ceylon speci- 
mens. (Gallinula erythrothorax, Schlegel, Faun. Japon. Aves, p. 121, pl. 78, “ Japan,” 
only differs in being considerably larger. It is still a question whether the race 
which occurs in Nipaul, Zapornia flammiceps, Hodgs., Gray (Zool. Mise. 1844, p. 86, 
sine descr.), belongs to the Japanese or the Southern-Asiatic race. Radde (Reisen im 
Siiden von Ost-Sib. ii. p. 309) obtained, in June and July, on the middle Amoor, examples 
of greater size than even those from Japan. Mr. Swinhoe (P.Z.S. 1871, p. 414, no. 
605) states that the “pectoral red does not extend so low down as in P. fusca,” this 
character being a sign of immaturity in the South-Asiatic form. 
In the Hand-list, P. fusca and P. rubiginosa are kept separate. ‘To the last, Pl. Col.. 
357 is correctly referred; to the first, Pl. Col. 387 (which represents Hsacus magni- 
rostris) is added as a reference '. 
' This error seems to haye arisen from the misprint in Blyth’s Cat. of the Cale. Mus, p. 285, no. 1666, having 
been copied. 
