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colour, with irregular-shaped spots of light reddish chestnut and a few under- 
lying ones of lilac, like all true Rails’ eggs. “The nest was composed of a 
few leaves and grass and hidden among thick debris at the root of a tree in a 
dense part of the scrub . . . The young on leaving the egg are covered with a 
sooty black down”. R. superciliaris is a migratory species in Ceylon and Burmah, 
as shown by Legge and Oates. Col. liegge remarks upon its curious habit 
of concealing itself in all sorts of unexpected places (B. Ceylon, p. 774). 
GENUS PORZANA Vieill. 
Size small, from about that of a Lark to that of a Thrush. Hallux with 
claw about as long as the first phalanx of the inner toe. Middle toe and claw 
longer than the tarsus. Bill about as long as the cranium, or less, compressed, 
nasal groove not carried on to the terminal third; wing small to moderate, 2”* 
or 3’''* quills longest; tail longer than tarsus. 
301. PORZANA FUSCA (L.). 
Ruddy Crake. 
a. Rallus fuscus (1) Linn., S. JST. 1760, I, 262 (ex Brisson). 
b. Rallus rubiginosus (1) Temm., PI. Ool. Nr. 357 — fide Schlegel (fig. inacc.); (2) Bernst., 
J. f. O. 1861, 192. 
c. Gallinula erytbrothorax (I) Temm. & Sclil., Faun. Jap. Aves 121, pi. LXXYII (1849 — 
Japan). 
d. Porzana erythrothorax (1) Swinh., Ibis 1861, 57, 411 ; (2) David&Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 
486; (3) Stejn., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, IX, 398; (4) Styan, Ibis 1891, 329, 501. 
Porzana fnsca (1) Swinh., Ibis 1863, 426; (2) Jerd., B. Ind. HI, 724 (1864); (3) Tweedd., 
Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 230; (4) id., P. Z. S. 1878, 344, 953; (5) Legge, B. Ceylon 
1880, 769; (6) Hume, Str. F. 1880, IX, 118; (7) Oates, B. Brit. Bxu-mah 1883, 
n, 346; (8) Stejn., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, EX, 399; (9) Reid, Str. F. 1887, X, 
453; (10) Steere, List Coll. B. & M. Phdipp. Is. 1890, 25; (11) Oates, ed. Hume’s 
Nests & Eggs 1890, EH, 396; (12) Munn, Ibis 1894, 77. 
e. Rallina fusca (1) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Ralli, 1865, 20; (2) Salvad., Ucc. Borneo 1874, 388; 
(3) Hume, Sir. F. 1875, EH, 188, 500; (4) Vorderman, N. T. Ned. Ind. XLII, 
1882, 108; (5) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 202; (6) Vorderman, N. T. Ned. 
Ind. XLIX, 1890, 416. 
f. Gallinula rubiginosa (1) Rosenb., Zool. Garten 1881, 167. 
g. Limnobaenus rubiginosus (1) Sundev., Av. Metb. Tent. 1872, 130. 
h. Crex fusca (1) Seeb., B. Japan. Emp. 1890, 357. 
Limnobaenus fuscus (1) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1894, XXHT , 146, 338; (2) M. (feWg., Abh. 
Mus. Dresd. 1895 Mai, Nr. 8, p. 17; (3) Grant, Ibis 1895, 472; (4) M. AWg., 
Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 15. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Sharpe it 
Figures and descriptions. Temminck h I (erroneous); Temminck & Schlegel c I (large 
race, Japan); Jerdon 2; David & Oustalet d 2] Legge 5; Oates 7; Stejneger 
d 3\ Vorderman e 4\ Sharpe it 
