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Iris dark orange or light brown or carmine, the bill 
varies much in colour, orange red with yellowish brown 
tip and brown culmen, or pinkish red with dark brown 
tip and culmen, or brown with light purplish base and tip, 
or horn black with dirty dark red at the tomia, feet purplish 
lead, claws horn black. 
Wings, ¢ 117, 108; 2 112, 106, 105 mm. 
These birds are inseparable from a series from the 
Malay Peninsula, north to Bangkok. How all these com- 
pare with typical striata from the Philippines, or with 
Javanese birds (gularis Horsf.) we are unable to say ; but 
in view of the considerable individual variation very pro- 
nounced characters would apparantly be necessary to 
distinguish races. In the Catalogue of Birds (Vol. xxiii, 
1894). Sharpe was only able to recognise the Andaman 
birds as distinct (obscuritora Hume). No more recent 
review of the species seems to have been made. 
All the females (January) had developed ovaries. 
24. Poliolimnas cinereus cinereus (Vieill.). 
Ie Ge IS US joy Tee 
36,22. Koto Tangah, Salimpaung, Padang High- 
lands, 900 M. 
2¢. Sandaran Agung, Korinchi, 733 M. 
Wines, 962 93; 935,94, 95; 2 87, 905.95 mn 
A female (January) had developed ovaries. 
25. Limnobaenus fuscus fuscus (Linn.). 
Re & Kb p. 114: 
@. Koto Tangah, Selimpaung, Padang High- 
lands, 900 M. 
é, ¢. Talu, Ophir Districts, 520 M. 
Iris and orbital ring carmine, bill black, feet pinkish 
coral red, claws black. 
Wings, ¢ 96; 2 89, 91 mm. 
The female (January) had developed ovaries. 
26. Porzana pusilla pusilla (Pall.). 
g. Koto Tangah, Selimpaung, Padang High- 
lands, 900 M. 
Iris dark orange, bill greenish black, the lower mandible 
with a yellow line in the middle, feet yellowish grey. 
Wing 91 mm. 
This species seems to be rare, as in four years only 
one example was obtained which is, so far as we are aware, 
the first to be recorded from Sumatra. | 
