214 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vou. XI, 
27. Amaurornis phoenicura javanica (Horsf.). 
R. & K., I, p. 115; R. & K., II, p. 79. 
6. Singkarak, Padang Highlands, 400 M. 
?. Talu, Ophir Districts, 520 M. 
?,2imm. Lubuk Landur, Mt. Ophir, 200 M. 
Iris dark carmine (in the immature female the iris 
was dark grey); bill sage green, blackish on culmen, shield 
blackish lake red (the immature bird had the bill greenish 
with blackish border on the upper mandible) ; feet yellowish 
brown with greenish tint. 
Wings, ¢ 147; ? 132 mm., 138, 140 mm. 
Contents of stomach : rice and small pebbles. 
28. Gallinula chloropus orientalis Horsf. 
R. &. K., I, p. 116. 
3¢, 2 imm. Sandaran Agung, Korinchi, 733 M. 
Iris dark grey, bill greenish yellow, basal part and 
shield brownish lake red, feet yellowish green, a garter 
of dull lake red above the tibio-tarsal joint. 
Wings, ¢ 149, 152, 153 mm. 
29. Porphyrio calvus calvus (Vieill.). 
R. & K., I, p. 117. 
76,79 ad.,12 subad.,29° imm. Korinchi Lake, 
733 M. 
Iris dark brownish carmine, bill dark dirty lake red, 
culmen blackish red, shield dark dirty lake red, basal part 
of lower mandible blackish red, feet pale coral red, joints 
greyish black. 
Wings, ¢ 222, 215, 228, 222, 231, 228, 216; 2 221, 
221, 220, 220, 220, 217, 291, 211 subad., 216 i imm., 211 imm., 
mm. 
We have now seen thirty-five of these birds; the above 
series taken in July and our own from the same place in 
May, and of the lot only one has a slight amount of greyish 
white on the head. Of five continental birds now before 
us all have a pale area on the head, some as much as the 
Sumatran specimen referred to, others considerably more ; 
the greyish feathers extending half way down the neck. 
They are also larger: of four specimens from Perak a ¢ and 
6 subad. have wings of 255 and 240 mm., a 2 and @ subad., 
245 and 240 mm., and a male from Chainat north of 
Bangkok, wing 247 mm. These birds will have to he 
known as Porphyrio calvus viridis Begbie. (The Malayan 
Peninsula, 1834, p. 515, Malay Peninsula), and since 
