RALLINA. 691 



p. 12, 1B71 ; I-Ioldsw., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1873, p. 478; Salvad., Faun. Ital, p. 245, 1S72; 

 Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc, vol. viii, p. 23, 1872 ; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 270, 1872; Ball, Stray 

 Feathers, 1873, p. 88; Hume, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 296, 1873; Gould, B. Brit., iv, pi. xxvi, 

 1873; Ball., Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 435 ; Salvad., Ucc. Born., p. 356, 1874 ; Blyth & Walden, 

 Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, ex. No., p. 161, 1875; Irby, B. Gibr., p. 187, 1875; 

 Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc., vol. ix, p. 238, 1875; Blanford, E. Pers., p. 296, 1876. 

 Fycliardea nycHcoraa:, SwiuhoejVroc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 413; Gray, Handl., iii, p. 33, 1871; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 624, 1873; id.. Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 256 ; id., 1875, 

 p. 192. 



a. h. Bhamo, 23rd February 1868. 



This bird was building on a large tree on tlie high bank of the river outside 

 the Bhamo stockade. There must have been as many as fifty birds in the heronry. 



Family— i?^iZ/Z»^. 



Genus Ertthra, Reichenbach. 



216. Erythra phcenicura, Eorster. 



Ballm fhcenimrus, Forster, Zool. Ind. Selc, p. 19, 1781; Gm., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 340, 1788. 



Ftdica chinensis, Bodd., Tabl. PI. Enl., p. 54, 1783, ex Buff. PI. Enl., 896. 



Gallinida phcenicura,'La,ih., IviHi.OYTi., vol. ii, p. 770, 1790; Less., Tr. d^Orn., p. 534, 1831; 



Mottl. & Dilw., Contr. Nat. Hist., Lab., p. 60, 1855 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. iii, p. 720, 1864 ; 



Schl., M. P.-B. iZa^^i, p. 41, 1865; Pelz., Reis. Nov. Vog., p. 162, 1865; Gray, Handl. 



B., iii, p. 67, 1871 ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 414; Ball, Stray Feathers, 1874, 



p. 432 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 599, 1873; Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 462; 1874, 



p. 300 ; 1875, p. 187. 

 Gallinula erytkrina, Bechst., Kurze Uebersicht, Vog., p. 471, 1811. 

 Porpyhyrio jiJimnicurus, VieilL, N. Diet. d-'Hist. Nat., xxviii, p. 29, 1819. 

 Gallinula javanica, Horsf., Tr. Linn. Soc, vol. xiii, p. 136, 1821. 

 Porzana phcenicura, Blyth, Cat. B., Mus. As. Soc, Bengal, p. 284, 1849; Sclater, Proc. Zool. 



Soc, 1863, p. 223 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 251 ; 1874, p. 483; Blyth & Walden, 



Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, ex No., p. 16, 1875; Butler, Stray Feathers, 1876, pp. 31, 



35 ; Fairbank, t. c, p. 263. 

 Erythra phcenicura, 'Sieioh., K-w.^jsi. Nat., p. xxi, 1852; Bonap., C. R., xliii, p. 600, 1856; 



Gray, Cat. Hodgs., Nepal, Coll., p. 76, 1863; Walden, Tr. ZooL Soc, viii, p. 94, 1872; 



Salvad., Ucc. Born., p. 341, 1874 ; Sharpe, Proc Zool. Soc, 1875, p. Ill ; Walden, Tr. Zool, 



Soc, vol. ix, p. 229, 1875. 



a. Bhamo, February 1868. 

 Common in Upper Burma. 



Genus Rallina, Reichenbach. 

 217. Rallina pusca, Linn. 



Le Rasle hrun des Philippines, Briss. Orn., t. v, p. 173, pi. xv, fig. 2, 1 760, 

 Ballusfuscus, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 262, 1766, ex Bri 

 Gallinula rubiginosa, Temm., PI. Col., t. v, pi. 357, 1825. 



riss. 



