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in front of the forehead; tarsus equal to or shorter than the middle toe and 
claw, hallux with claw comparatively large, longer than the first phalanx of the 
inner toe; wing somewhat small, tip formed by 2"'* to 5““ quills, 3"* and 4*'* 
usually slightly the longest; tail very small, about as long as the tarsus. The 
long hallux, longer toes and different quill-formula serve to distinguish this 
genus from liallina, the absence of a frontal shield from Gallinula, the long 
hallux from Porzana. 
303. AMAURORNIS OINEREA (Vieill.). 
White-eyebrowed Water-crake. 
a. Porphyrio cinereus (1) Vieill., Nouv. Diet. 1819, XXVTII, 29; (2) Pucheran, B,ev. Zool. 
1851, 563. 
b. Rallus quadristrigatus (1) Horsf., Tr. Linn. Soc. 1821, XIII, 196. 
c. Zapornia sandwichensis (I) Rclib. (noc Gm.), Handb. Pnlic., Taf OXIX, figs. 1184 85 
(1846). 
d. Porzana leucophrys (I) Gld., B. Austr. 1848, VI, pi 81; (II) Rcbb., Fulic. Novit., Taf. 
XLII, figs. 2469—70. 
e. Porzana quadristrigata (1) Blytb, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 1849, 284; (2) Seebobm, Ibis 
1891, 191. 
/’. Porzana cinerea (1) Scbl, Mus. P.-B., Balli, 1865, 32; (2) Bosenb., Malay. Archip. 1878, 
278; (3) Hume, Str. P. 1878, VH, 440, (4) id., ib. 1879, VIII, 70; (5) Kelliam, 
Ibis 1882, 188; (6) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 125, 127; (7) Ramsay, Tab. List 
1888, 21; (8) Tristr., Cat. CoU. B. 1889, 28. 
g. Erythra quadristrigata (1) Gld., HB. B. Austr. 1865, H, 343; (II) North, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. B. 1889, 332, pi. XVI, fig. 7 (egg). 
h. Ortygometra quadristrigata (1) Pinsch, Neu-Guinea 1865, 181; (2) Pinsch & Hartl, 
Orn. CentralpoL 1867, 164; (3) Nehrk., J. f. 0. 1879, 408; (4) E. L. & E. L. C. 
Layard, Ibis 1882, 537, 544; (5) Hartert, Kat. Vog. Senckenb. Mus. 1891, 212. 
Ortygometra cinerea (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 94; (2) Salvad., Oat. Ucc. Borneo 
1874, 339; (3) id.. Ami. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VH, 677; (4) Briigg., Abh. Ver. 
Bremen 1876, V, 92; (5) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1877, 767; 1878, 114, 344, 953; (6) 
Meyer, Ibis 1879, 142; (7) Salvad., Orn. Pap. HI, 1882, 373; (8) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 
1883, 139; (9) id., ib. 1884, 215, 218, 222; (10) Kutter, J. f. O. 1884, 225; (11) 
id., ib. 1885, 353; (12) W. Bias., Ztsclu*. ges. Om. 1886, 158; (13) Biittik., 
Notes Leyden Mus. 1887, IX, 6, 80; (14) Everett, J. Str. Br. B. A. S. 1889, 202; 
(15) Steere, List OoU. B. & M. Pliilipp. Is. 1890, 25; (16) Vorderman, N. T. 
Ned. Ind. 1890, XLIX, 416; (17) Sh. & Whitehd., Ibis 1890, 145; I'lS; Sharpe, 
ib. 285; (7, Meyer, ib. 424; (20) Salvad., Ami. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1891, (2) XH, 76, 
(21) WiglesAV., Av. Polyn. 1892,61; ('SSj Biittik., Zool Erg. Weber’s Beise Ost- 
Ind. 1893, m, 282; (23) M. & Wg., J. f. 0. 1894, 252; (24) iid., Abh. Mus., 
Dresd. 1895, Mai, Nr. 8, p. 17. 
j. Zapornia quadristrigata (1) Vorderman, N. T. Ned. Ind. 1883, XLIH, 122. 
h. Phalaridium quadristrigatum (1) Heine & Bchw., Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 319. 
1. Poliolimnas^) cinerea (1) Sharpe, Bid! B. 0. C. 1893, Nr. V, p- 28; (2) id.. Oat. B. XXIH, 
>' In creating for this species the peculiar genus PoUolitnnas, the author of the Catalogue of the Rails 
compares it with the genus Porzatia, and makes the erroneous statement that the secondaries aie equal to the 
Jleyer k Wiglesworht, Birds of Celebes {Nov. 1897). 
