12 Mr. J. I). D. La Touche on the [Ibis, 
the Hemipode, which invariably tried to escape from it. 
The following year only one egg was laid by the new Quail. 
The other bird had unfortunately been attacked by a rat and 
was so injured that I had to chloroform it. This bird at 
the time of its death had assumed an extraordinary melanistic 
plumage, probably due to insufficient insect-food. I fed 
these Quail on kaoliang and small millet, and gave them 
besides bread and milk and insects when in season. 
195. Kalins indicus Blyth. 
B alius indicus D. & O. p. 489. 
I have an adult male of the Indian Rail which was 
brought down to me alive from Chihfeng in northern 
Chihli by Mr. A. L. Hall, who had obtained it at the begin¬ 
ning of May. I shot an immature bird in the crops here 
on the 21st of September and a half-grown bird on the 28th 
of September, so that this Rail evidently breeds here. The 
soft parts of the adult male are : iris orange-red, culmen 
brownish, the edge of the upper mandible and lower man¬ 
dible orange-vermilion, legs rosy grey. 
I shot out of a ditch on the plains near Newchwang in 
southern Manchuria on the ^6th of May, 1889, an example 
of Amaurornis paykulli (Ljungh). 
196. Porzana pusilla (Pall.). 
Porzana pygmcea D. & 0. p. 487. 
Porzana pusilla La T. p. 579. 
Pallas’s Crake passes during the latter half of May to the 
beginning of June, and is met with again in wet fields and 
marshes from the beginning of August to the last week in 
October. It is extremely abundant during the autumn 
passage. It is said by David to summer near Peking, and 
probably also breeds near Chinwangtao. 
I saw this Crake in summer near Newchwang. 
197. Grallinula chloropus parvifrons Blytli. 
Gallinula chloropus D. & O. p. 485. 
The Indian Common Moorhen summers in the marshes. 
I have three eggs taken at the end of June. 
