RALLINA. — RALLUS. 
405 
Porzana fusca SiiAW , Natur. Miscell. 
Gallinula rubiginosa Temminck, PI. color. 357. 
Rallus rubiginosus Lesson, Traité Ornith. 537. 
Corethrura fusca, C. rubiginosa Gray, Genera Birds III. 595. 
Euryzona rubiginosa Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 599. 
isabelliiia Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Ralli 16. [Celebes. 
Gallinula isabelUna Temminck. 
Euryzona isabellina Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 599. 
kioloides Schlegel et Pollen, Rech. Faune Madagascar 135. Tb. 39. 
[Madagascar, 
Gallinula kioloides Pucheran, Revue Zool. 1845. 279. 
Canirallus kioloides Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 600. 
Corethrura griseifrons Gray, Genera Birds III. 595. 
Hypotaenidia griseofrons Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 599. 
Canirallus griseofrons Gray, Handl. Birds III. 67. 
Chikora. 
mandarina Gray, Handl. Birds III. 58. = Porzana mandarina Swinh. 
minahasa Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862. 346. — Rallina tricolor Schleg. 
moluccana Gray, Handl. Birds III. 58. = Porzana moluccana Wall. 
oculea Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Ralli 20. [Guiana, 
Gallinula oculea Temminck. — Hartlaub, Journ. Ornith. 1855. III. 357. 
Canirallus oculeus Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 600. 
Rallus oculeus Hartlaur, Ornith, W Africa 241. 
PaykuUi Gray, Handl. Birds III. 58. = Porzana cinerea Schleg. 
philippensis Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862. — Rallus pectoralis Less. 
pliimbeiveiitris Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Ralli 17. [Mysol. Gilolo. 
Rallus plumbeiventris Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861. 432. 
Rallus Howeni Rosenberg. 
poeciloptera Hartlaub u. Finsch, Fauna Centralpolyn. 156. Tf. 3. 12. 
[Viti. 
Hypotaenidia poeciloptera Gray, Handl. Birds III. 57. 
Roseiibergi Schlegel, nederl. Tijdschr. Dierkd. 1866. HI. 212. [Celebes. 
Hypotaenidia Rosenbergi Gray, Handl. Birds III. 57. 
rufigenys Gray, Handl. Birds III. 58. [Borneo 
Porzana rufigenys Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865. 481. 
tricolor Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Ralîi 18. [Noim Guinea. Oceania. Celebes. 
Rallus tricolor Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858. 188. 
Rallina minahasa Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862. 346. 
zeylonica Gray, Handl. Birds III. 58. = Rallina fasciata Schleg. 
EALLINA maxima Reichenbach, natürl. Syst. 23. = Äramides cayennensis Puch. 
RALLITES Pucheran, Revue Zool. 1845. 277. = Porzana minuta Schleg. 
RALLUS (Rallidae. — Rallus nom. propr.). — Linne, Syst. Nat. 1756. — 
Naumann, Natg. Vögel Deutschi. IX. 465. — Gray, Genera Birds 1846. IH. 
592. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Ralli. — Degland, Ornith. Europ. II. 250. 
Synon. : Hypotaenidia Reichb. — Pardirallus Rüpp. — Limnopardalis Cuv. — 
Biensis Puch. 
Bill longer than the head^ slender and straight, with the culmen slightly cur- 
ved from the front of the nostrils, and the sides compressed to the tip, which 
is obtuse and slightly emarginated ; the gonys long and slightly curved upwards; 
the nostrils placed in a membranous groove, ivhich extends for two thirds the 
length of the bill, with the opening exposed and linear. Wings short, with the 
second and third quills equal and longest. Tail short and rounded. Tarsi moderate, 
shorter than the middle toe, and covered with transverse scales. Toes long and 
rather slender, the inner toe shorter than the outer, both free at their bases; the 
hind toe short and slender; the claws short, compressed and very acute. — 
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