708 Birds of Celebes: Eallidae. 



the marshes or by swimmiug, "which it can do as perfectly as the Moor-hen, 

 Gallinule and the little Porzanae" ; Kelham shot a female with the stomach 

 full of grass-seeds, a fine thread-like weed, and a quantity of sand. About the 

 inland lakes of Celebes, such as Tondano and Limbotto, it seems to be a very 

 plentiful species. 



-^304. AMAURORNIS PHOENICURA (Foist.). 



White-breasted Water-hen. 



a. Rallus phoenicnrus !I) Forster, Zool. LkI. 1781, 19, pi. 9 (Ceylon). 



b. Gallinula leucomelaena (1) S. Miill., Verb. Natuurk. Comin. 1839—44, 158 (Timor). 



c. Gallinula phoenicura (1) Gray, Gen. B. m, 599 (1845); (2) Swinh., Ibis 1863, 427; 



(3) Schl., Mus. P.-B., RaUi, 18G5, 41; (IV) Gould, B. Asia VII, pi. 67 (1872); 



(5) Aitkeu, Str. F. 1S73, I, 424; (6) Hume & Davis., Str. F. 1878, VI, 466; 

 ('ZyRosenb., Malay. Ai-chip. 1878,278; (8)iA., Zool. Garten 1881, 167; (^Sj Vorderm., 

 K T. Ned. Ind. 1882, XLH, 112; (10) Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 1889, 27; (11) Styan, 

 Ibis 1891, 329, 501; (12) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1895, 322; ('iSj Jesse, Ibis 

 1896, 192, 198. 



d. Porzana phoenicura (1) Blyth, Cat. Mus. Asiatic Soc. 1849, 284; (2) Schomb., Ibis 



1864, 261. 

 €. Erythra phoenicura (I) Rchb., Handb. Fulic, 1852, p. XXI, t. 192, figs. 1116—1117; 

 (2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VTH, 94; (3) Salvad., Ucc. Borneo 1874, 340; (4) id., 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, TH, 679; (5) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 486; 



(6) Gates, Str. F. 1877, V, 165; (7) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1879, XIV, 

 253; (S) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 142; (9) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 786; (10) Wardl. 

 Earns., Tweedd. Cm. Works, Index 1881, 659; (11) Kelbam, Ibis 1882, 188; 

 (12) A. Miiller, J. f. 0. 1882, 438, 441; (13) Parker, Ibis 1883, 194, 195; 

 (14) W. Blasius, J. f. 0. 1883, 139; (15) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 273, 560; 

 (16) Biittik., Notes Leyden Mus. 1887, 80; (17) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 

 202; (IS) Gates ed. Hume's Nests & Eggs Ind. B. 1890, HI, 391; (19) Steere, 

 List Coll. B. & M. Pbifipp. 1890, 25; (20) Sbarpe & Whitehead, Ibis 1890, 145; 

 (21) Hagen, T. Ned. Aard. Genoots. 1890, (2) ^fU, 165; (21>-<') Vorderm., N. T. 

 Ned. Ind. 1890, L, 407; (22) De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 495; (23) Oust., Bull. 

 Soc. Philom. 1892 (S) IV, 118; (24) Hose, Ibis 1893, 423; (25) Biittik., Weber's 

 Reise 1893, HI, 282, 2S9; (26) M. & Wg. , J. f. O. 1894, 252; (27) Hartert, 

 Novit. Zool. 1894, 483; (28) id., ib. 1896, 166, ISO. 



f. Erythra leucomelaena (1) Bp., C. R. 1856, XLIII, 600; (2) Bias. &Nehrk., Jb. Naturw. 



Braunschw. 1881, 60; (3) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 511. 



g. Ortygometra phoenicura (1) Finsch, Neu Guinea 1865, 181. 



Amaurornis phoenicura (1) Sundev., Av. Meth. Tent. 1872, 132; (2) W. Bias., Zt. ges. Orn. 



1885, 311; 1886, 158; (3) id., J. f. 0. 1885, 402; (4) Stejn., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



1886, 405; (5) W. Bias., Oriiis 1888, 319; (6) Sharpe, Ibis 1894, 243, 257; 



(7) id.. Cat. B. 189 1,' XXIH, 156; (8) Bourns & Worces., B. & M. Menage 

 Exped. 1894, 30; (9) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Mai, Nr. 8, p. 17; 

 (lO)'Rixit., Notes Leyd. Mus. 1896, XVHI, 193; (11) Hart, Nov. Zool. 1897, 165. 



h. Gallinula phoenicura var. leucomelaena (1) Briigg. , Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 91. 

 i. Amaurornis leucomelaena (1) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1882, IH, 278. 

 /. Erythrura phoenicura (1) Gates, B. Brit. Burmah 1883, H, 348. 



