RAIXID.€, 
Porzana bi color Wald. 1 Elwe’s Crake. 
Porzana bkolor Walden, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 9, 1872, p. 47 : 
Darjiling, Sikkim. 
Disir. — ? Malay States. 
Genus AMAURORNIS 2 Reichenbach. 
Amaurornis phoenicurus (Penn.}. White -breasted Water-Hen. 
[Amaurornis phoenicurus phoenicurus (Penti.). 
Gallinuta phoenicurus Pennant, Ind. Zool, 1769, p, 10: Ceylon. 
Dish. — Extra -1 irnital.] 
Amaurornia phoenicurus chinensi* (Bodd.). 
Fulica chinensis Boddaert, Tabl, Planch. Enlum. 1783, p. 54: 
China= Hongkong (Sfresemann, 1913)* 
Distr . — Malay Peninsula. 
Sumatra J 
Amaurornis phoenicurus javanicus (Horsf.). 
GalUnula javanica Horsfield, Trans. Linn, Soc. xiii, 1S21, p. 196: 
Java, 
Gallinuta sumatranus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1822, pp. 70, 328 : 
Sumatra, 
Amaurornis ph&nicura cleptea Oberh., Smiths Misc. Coll, lx, 7 tgi2, 
p. 2 : Nias Island. 
Distr.- — Malay States (extreme south); Singapore Island. 
Sumatra; Banka; Rhio Archipelago; West Sumatran Islands 
of Simalur, Nias, Batu Islands and the Mentawi Islands. 
Borneo; South Natuna Islands; Billiton. 
Java; Bali; Thousand Islands, Java Sea; Kangean Islands. 
Genus GALL 1 NULA Brisson. 
Gal I inula tenebrosa Gould. Black Moor-Hen. 
[GalUnula tenebrosa tenebrosa Gould. 
GalUnula tenebrosa Gould, Birds Austr. 1846, pt. xxiii, pL 73 : 
South Australia. 
Disir.- — Extra-li mital . ] 
*Gallinuia tenebrosa frontata Wall. 
GalUnula frontata Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 35 : Bnru. 
Distr. — Borneo ( South-east) . 
* The authenticity of a single specimen recorded from Johore is open to 
doubt. 
3 cf. Stres., Nov. Zool. xx, 1913, p, 303; Chas. and Kl., Joum. Siam 
Soc. (Nat. Hist. Suppl.) vii, 1928, p. 157. 
3 Long-winged birds occurring in Sumatra are, no doubt, migrants of this 
race. 
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