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together with those in the British Museum collection, they seem to 

 contrast in this respect with birds from India and Southern China. 

 The difference, however, between birds from north and south and 

 from east and west is so trifling, and so many individuals agree 

 with others from the opposite area that it does not seem advisable 

 to divide them into geographical races. 



The Philippine and Celebes birds appear to be habitually 

 darker and more richly coloured both above and below than those 

 from other parts of this Rail's habitat, and can easily be distinguish- 

 ed by this feature. 



The Philippines are the type locality for striata, so that birds 

 from elsewhere will have to bear the name gularis of Horsfield, 

 type locality Java. 



Birds from Borneo are intermediate, a little darker than 

 typical gularis and perhaps nearer striata than the other form. 

 "f 264. Amaurornis phcenicura chinensis. 



Fulica chinensis, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl.,*p.54 (1783). 



9 Krabin, C. Siam, 8.11.15. 



d Klong Bang Lai, P. Siam, 15.1.16. 



2 d $ Bangkok, 13.2.16 and 10.3.16 



d Samkok, C. Siam, 18.3.16. 



This species was reviewed by E. Streseman in Novitates 

 Zoologicae xx-, p. 303. In this he shows that the typical phainicura 

 is confined to Ceylon and that our Indian aud Burmese birds are 

 the same as the Chinese ( type locality, Hong Kong ) and must 

 bear the name sinensis. True phoenicura will probably, however, 

 eventually be found to extend into Southern Travancore, the 

 avifauna of which is strongly Ceylonese. 



-f 265. Gallicrex cinerea. 



Fulica cinerea, Gml. Syst. Nat. 1, p.702 (1788). 



d Samkok, C. Siam, 30.8.15. 



This is a young bird which has not yet completely attained 

 adult plumage. 



VOL. IV, NO. 1, 1920. 



