Birds of Celebes: Rallidae. 7U5 



in front of the forehead; tarsus equal to or shorter than the middle toe and 

 claw, hallux with claw comparatively large, longer than the first phalanx of the 

 inner toe; wing somewhat small, tip formed by 2""^ to 5*^ quills, 3'* and 4*'' 

 usually slightly the longest; tail very small, about as long as the tarsus. The 

 long hallux, longer toes and different quill-formula serve to distinguish this 

 genus from Rallina, the absence of a frontal shield from Gallinula, the long 

 hallux from Porzana. 



^ 303. AMAURORNIS CINEREA (Vieill). 

 White-eyebrowed Water-crake. 



a. Porphyrio cinereus (1) Vieill., Nouv. Diet. 1819, XXVm, 29; (2) Pucheran, Kev. Zool. 



1851, 563. 



b. Kallus quadristrigatus (1) Horsf., Tr. Linn. Soc. 1821, XIII, 196. 



c. Zapornia sandwichensis (I) Rchb. (nee Gm.), Handb. Fulic., Taf CXIX, figs. 1184—85 



(1846). 



d. Porzana leucophrys (I) Gld., B. Austr. 1848, VI, pi. 81; (II) Rchb., Fulic. Novit., Taf. 



XLn, tigs. 2469—70. 



e. Porzana quadristrigata (1) Blyth, Cat. B. Miis. As. Soc. 1849, 284; (2) Seebohm, Ibis 



1891, 191. 

 /: Porzana cinerea fl) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Ealli, 1865, 32; (2) Rosenb., Malay. Archip. 1878, 



278; (3J Hume, Str. F. 1878, VH, 440, (4) id., ib. 1879, VIII, 70; (5) Kelham, 



Ibis 1882, 188; (6) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 125, 127; (7) Ramsay, Tab. List 



1888, 21; fS) Tristr., Oat. Coll. B. 1889, 28. 

 y. Erythra quadristrigata (1) Gld., HB. B. Austr. 1865, 11, 343; (II) North, Nests and 



Eggs Austr. B. 1889, 332, pi. XVI, fig. 7 (egg). 

 //. Ortygometra quadristrigata (1) Finsch, Neu-Guinea 1865, 181; (2) Finsch & Hartl., 



Orn. Centralpol. 1867, 164; (3) Nehrk., J. f. 0. 1879, 408; (4) E. L. & E. L. C. 



Layard, Ibis 1882, 537, 544; (5) Hartert, Kat. Vog. Senckenb. Mus. 1891, 212. 

 i. Ortygometra cinerea (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, Vm, 94; (2) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 



1874, 339; (3) id., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VH, 677; (4) Briigg., Abh. Ver. 



Bremen 1876, V, 92; (5) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1877, 767; 1878, 114, 344, 953; (6) 



Meyer, Ibis 1879, 142; (7) Salvad., Orn. Pap. m, 1882, 373; (S) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 



1883, 139; (9) id., ib. 1884, 215, 218, 222; (10) Kutter, J. f. O. 1884, 225; (11) 



id., ib. 1885, 353; (12) W. Bias., Ztschi-. ges. Orn. 1886, 158; (13) Biittik., 



Notes Leyden Mus. 1887, IX, 6, 80; (14) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 202; 



(15) Steere, List Coll. B. & M. PhiHpp. Is. 1890, 25; (16) Vorderman, N. T. 



Ned. Ind. 1890, XLIX, 416; (17) Sh. & Whitehd., Ibis 1890, 145; (18) Sharpe, 



ib. 285; (19)Meyer, ib. 424; (20) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1891, (2) XH, 76; 



(21) Wiglesw., Av. Polyn. 1892,61; /"SSJ Biittik., Zooh Erg. Weber's Reise Ost- 



Ind. 1893, m, 282; (23) M. & Wg., J. f. 0. 1894, 252; (24) iid., Abh. Mus., 



Dresd. 1895, Mai, Nr. 8, p. 17. 

 ./. Zapornia quadristrigata (1) Vorderman, N. T. Ned. Ind. 1883, XLIH, 122. 

 /,-. Phalaridium quadristrigatum (1) Heine & Rchw., Nomencl. Mus. Heiu. 1890, 319. 

 /. Poliolimnasi) cinerea (1) Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. 1893, Nr. V, p. 28; (2) id.. Cat. B. XXIH, 



») In creating for this species the peculiar genus Poliolimnas, the author of the Catalogue of the Rails 

 compares it with the genus Porzana, and makes the erroneous statement that the secondaries are equal to the 



Meyer A- Wigleeworht , Birds of Celebes iNov. i'.lth, 1S97). 89 



