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RALLIU^. 



Oetygometra, Linnaeus. 

 172. Oetygometra cinekea. 

 Porphyria cinereus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 29, "Java" (1819); ScUegel, Miis. 

 Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 32; Waldeu, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 94. 



Hab. Philippines {Cuming). 



PoRZAXA, Vieillot. 



17.3. PORZANA PYGM^A. 



Crex pygmtBa, Naumann, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 30. 



Hab. Philippines {Verreanx). 



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 pMlippensis fuscus, Brissou, Om. v. p. 173, no. 2, " Philippiues." 



Rallus fuscus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 262, no. 4 (1766), ex Brisson ; ScMegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, 



p. 20. 

 Rale brun des Philippines, D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 773. 

 Gallinula rubiffimsa, Temm. PI. 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 (l. c.) identifies individuals from Borneo, 

 Java, and Sumatra. From Javan examples I am unable to distinguish Ceylon speci- 

 mens. Gallinula erythrothorax, Schlegel, Faun. Japon. Aves, p. 121, pi. 78, "Japan," 

 only differs in being considerably larger. It is still a question whether the race 

 which occurs in Nipaul, Zaiwrnia Jlammiceps, Hodgs., Gray (Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 80, 

 sine descr.), belongs to the Japanese or the Southern-Asiatic race. Radde (Reisen im 

 Siideii von Ost-Sib. ii. p. 309) obtained, in June and July, on the middle Anioor, 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, PI. Col. 

 357 is correctly referred ; to the first, PI. Col. 387 (which represents Esacus magni- 

 rostris) is added as a reference \ 



' This error seems to have arisen from the misprint in Blyth's Cat. of the Cale. Mus. j). 285, no. 16(J6, having 

 been copied. 



