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colour, with irregular-shaped spots of light reddish chestnut and a few under- 

 lying ones of lilac, like all true Rails' eggs. "The nest was composed of a 

 few leaves and grass and hidden among thick debris at the root of a tree in a 

 dense part of the scrub . . . The young on leaving the egg are covered with a 

 sooty black down", i?. supercUiaris is a migratory species in Ceylon and Burmah, 

 as shown by Legge and Oates. Col. Legge remarks upon its curious habit 

 of concealing itself in all sorts of unexpected places (B. Ceylon, p. 774). 



GENUS PORZANA Vieill. 



Size small, from about that of a Lark to that of a Thrush. Hallux with 

 claw about as long as the first phalanx of the inner toe. Middle toe and claw 

 longer than the tarsus. Bill about as long as the cranium, or less, compressed, 

 nasal groove not can-ied on to the terminal third; wing small to moderate, 2'"* 

 or 3"^ quills longest; tail longer than tarsus. 



-rSOl. PORZANA FUSCA (L.). 



Ruddy Crake. 



a. Rallus fuscus (1) Linn., S. N. 1760, I, 262 (ex Brisson). 



b. Rallus rubiginosus (1) Temm., PI. Col. lS"r. 357 — fide Schlegel (fig. inacc); (2) Bernst., 



J. f. 0. 1861, 192. 



c. Gallinula erythrothorax (I) Temm. & Schl., Faun. Jap. Aves 121, pi. LXXVH (1849 — 



Japan). 



d. Porzana erythrothorax (1) Swinh., Ms 1861, 57, 411 ; (2) David&Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 



486; (3) Stejn., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, IX, 398; (4) Styan, Ibis 1891, 329, 501. 

 Porzana fusca (1) Swinh., Ibis 1863, 426; (2) Jerd., B. Ind. DI, 724 (1864); (3) Tweedd., 

 Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 230; (4) id., P. Z. S. 1878, 344, 953; (5) Legge, B. Ceylon 

 1880, 769; (6) Hume, Str. F. 1880, IX, 118; (7) Oates, B. Brit. Burmah 1883, 

 n, 346; (8) Stejn., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, IX, 399; (9) Reid, Str. F. 1887, X, 

 453; (10) Steere, List CoU. B. & M. PhiUpp. Is. 1890, 25; (11) Oates, ed. Hume's 

 Nests & Eggs 1890, IH, 396; (12) Munn, Bjis 1894, 77. 



e. Rallina fusca (1) Schl, Mus. P.-B., Ralli, 1865, 20; (2) Salvad., Ucc. Borneo 1874, 388; 



(3) Hume, Str. F. 1875, HI, 188, 500; (4) Vorderman, N. T. Ned. Ind. XLH, 

 1882, 108; (5) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 202; (6) Vorderman, N. T. Ned. 

 Ind. XLIX, 1890, 416. 



f. Gallinula rubiginosa (1) Rosenb., Zool. Garten 1881, 167. 



g. Limnobaenus rubiginosus (1) Sundev., Av. Meth. Tent. 1872, 130. 

 h. Crex fusca (1) Seeb., B. Japan. Emp. 1890, 357. 



i. Limnobaenus fuscus (1) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1894, XXHI, 146, 338; (2) M. &Wg., Abh. 



Mus. Dresd. 1895 Mai, Nr. 8, p. 17; (3) Grant, Ibis 1895, 472; (4) M. & Wg., 



Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 15. 

 For further synonymy and references cf. Sharpe i 1. 

 Figures and descriptions. Temminck b I (erroneous); Temminck & Schlegel c I (large 



race, Japanj; Jerdon 2; David & Oustalet d 2; Legge o; Oates 7; Stejneger 



d 3\ Vorderman e 4; Sharpe i 1. 



