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Birds of Celebes: Eallidae. 
the marshes or by swimming, “which it can do as perfectly as the Moor-hen, 
Gallinule and the little Porzanae” \ Kelham shot a female with the stomach 
full of grass-seeds, a fifie thread-like weed, and a quantity of sand. About the 
inland lakes - of Celebes, such as Tondano and Limbotto, it seems to be a very 
plentiful species. 
304. AMAURORNIS PHOENICURA (Foist.). 
White-breasted W^ater-hen. 
a. Rallus phoenicurus (I) Torster, Zool. Ind. 1781, 19, pi. 9 (Ceylon). 
Gallinnla leuGomelaena (1) S. Miill. , Verb. Natuurk. Comm. 1839 — 44, 158 (Timor). 
c. Gallinnla phoenicura (1) Gray, Gen. B. m, 599 (1845); (2) Swinli., Ibis 1863, 427; 
(3) Scbl., Mus. P.-B., Ralli, 1865, 41; (IV) Gould, B. Asia VII, pi. 67 (1872); 
(5) Aitken, Str. F. 1873, I, 424; (6) Hume & Davis., Str. P. 1878, VI, 466; 
(7) Bosenb., Malay. Arcliip. 1878, 278; (8) id., Zool. Garten 1881, 167; (9) Vorderm., 
K T. Ned. Ind. 1882, XLII, 112; (10) Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 1889, 27; (11) Styan, 
Ibis 1891, 329, 501; (12) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1895, 322; Jesse, Ibis 
1896, 192, 198. 
d. Porzana phoenicura (1) Blytb, Cat. Mus. Asiatic Soc. 1849, 284; (2) Scbomb., Ibis 
1864, 261. 
e. Erythra phoenicura (I) Rcbb., Handb. Pulic., 1852, p. XXI, t. 192, figs. 1116 — 1117; 
(2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 94; (3) Salvad., Ucc. Borneo 1874, 340; (4) id., 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VH, 679; (5) David & Oust., Ois. Cbine 1877, 486; 
(6) Oates, Str. P. 1877, V, 165; (7) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1879, XIV, 
253; (8) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 142; (9) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 786; (10) Wardl. 
Rams., Tweedd. Orn. Works, Index 1881, 659; (11) Kelham, Ibis 1882, 188; 
(12) A. Muller, J. f. 0. 1882, 438, 441; (13) Parker, Ibis 1883, 194, 195; 
(14) W. Blasius, J. f. O. 1883, 139; (15) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 273, 560; 
(16) Biittik., Notes Leyden Mus. 1887, 80; (17) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 
202; (18) Oates ed. Hume’s Nests & Eggs Ind. B. 1890, HI, 391; (19) Steere, 
List Coll. B. & M. Philipp. 1890, 25; (20) Sbai-pe & Whitehead, Ibis 1890, 145; 
(21) Hagen, T. Ned. Aard. Genoots. 1890, (2) \TI, 165; (2V‘^) Vorderm., N. T. 
Ned. Ind. 1890, L, 407; (22) De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 495; (23) Oust., Bull. 
Soc. Pbilom. 1892 (8) IV, 118; (24) Hose, Ibis 1893, 423; (25) Biittik., Weber’s 
Reise 1893, HI, 282, 289; (26) M. & Wg., J. f. 0. 1894, 252; (27) Hartert, 
Novit. Zool. 1891, 483; (28) id., ib. 1896, 166, 180. 
f. Erythra leucomelaena (1) Bp., C. R. 1856, XTi l 1 1, 600; (2) Bias. &Nebrk., Jb. Natiurw. 
Braunscbw. 1881, 60; (3) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 511. 
g. Ortygometra phoenicura (1) Finscb, Neu Guinea 1865, 181. 
Amanrornis phoenicura (1) Sundev., Av. Meth. Tent. 1872, 132; (2) W. Bias., Zt. ges. Orn. 
1885, 311; 1886, 158; (3) id., J. f. 0. 1885, 402; (4) Stejn., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
1886, 405; (5) W. Bias., Omis 1888, 319; (6) Sharpe, Ibis 1894, 243, 257; 
(7) id.. Cat. B. 1894,’ XXIH, 156; (8) Bourns & Worces., B. & M. Menage 
Exped. 1894, 30; (9) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Mai, Nr. 8, p. 17; 
fidj Butt., Notes Leyd. Mus. 1896, XVIH, 193; (11) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 165. 
h. Gallinnla phoenicura var. leucomelaena (1) Briigg. , Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 91. 
Amanrornis leucomelaena (1) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1882, HI, 278. 
j. Erythrura phoenicura (1) Oates, B. Brit. Burmali 1883, H, 348. 
