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FASCICULI MALATENSES 



RALLIDAE 



210. Gallicrex cinerea, (Gmel.) 



Gallicrex cinerea, Bon/iote, p. 79. 



A male of the Kora or Water-cock in the blackish summer-plummage 

 bears no particulars. 



' The Ayam-ayam or c Hen ' is very local in its distribution, but common 

 wherever found. The present specimen was obtained near Patani. 



211. Amaurornis phocnicura, (Forst.) 

 Amaurornis phoenicura, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii, p. 156 (1894). 



9 ad. Patani. 22nd April. (No. 4) 



$ imm. Kampong Jalor. 23rd November. (No. 476) 



$ ad. Sungkei, South Perak. (No. 647) 



The White-breasted Water-Hen has the iris dark sienna-brown, the bill 

 greenish-olive, the base of the upper mandible and frontal shield crimson, and 

 the feet yellow with a gamboge tinge. 



' Common along river-banks and in swamps throughout the Peninsula.' 



212. Amaurornis fuscus, (Linn.) 

 Limnobaenus fuscus, S/iarpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii, p. 146 (1894). 



$ ad. Patani. 22nd April. (No. 3) 



The Ruddy Crake has the iris and eyelid crimson, the bill leaden-black, 

 inclining to greenish, the feet brick-red, brighter above the tibio-tarsal joint, 

 the claws and hinder aspect of tarsus darker. 



c Snared by Malays among the reeds at the mouth of the Patani River.' 



213. Rallina superciliaris, (Eyton) 

 Rallina superciliaris, S/iarpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii, p. 76 (1894). 



$ ad. G. Berumban, Perak. 6,000 feet. 28th January. (No. 603) 

 ' The Banded Crake was collected by Sakais.' 



COLUMBIDAE 



214. Chalcophaps indica, (Linn.) 

 Chalcophaps indica, Bonhote, p. 77 ; Hartert, p. 540. 



$ , 9 ad. Biserat. 2nd July. (Nos. 226, 227, 228) 



