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Show 1877-] THE ORNITHOLOGY OF T H E PHILIPPINES. 767 63. CHARADRIUS FULVUS (159). [Cebu, male and female, April.] Two of the male examples are in almost full breeding^plumage, a few only of the chin- and throat-feathers not being black, 64. GALLINULA CHLOROPUS (169). [Cebu, female, juv., March, Iris crimson, bill dirty orange-yellow, brown at the base, legs grass-green, nails brown, b. Cebu, female, April. Iris crimson, bill light brown, apical portion light greenish, legs green.] 65. ORTYGOMETRA CINEREA (172). [Cebu, male, March. Iris crimson, bill greenish brown, legs dull greenish, nails brown, b. Cebu, female, March. Iris crimson, maxilla greenish brown, mandible green, legs dull greenish, nails brown.] 66. RALLINA EURYZONOIDES. The Rail, Brown, Illustr. p. 94, t. xxxvii., "Ceylon" (1776). Gallinula eurizonoides, Lafresn. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 368. Rallus zeylanicus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 716. no. 17; Jerdon, B. Ind, iii. p. 725, nee Gm. Rallus zeylanicus, Gm., I. c. auctt, recent, nee Gm. [Cebu, male, April. Iris brilliant red. b. Cebu, female, April. Iris bright brick-red, bill blackish, the base tinged light green, tip greyish, legs dull greenish leaden, feet dark lead-grey, nails grey.] The two examples obtained by Mr. Everett do not quite agree with Ceylon and Continental-Indian individuals, inasmuch as the dark banding below appears much blacker, broader, and more decided, and the dorsal colouring is browner. Still, since it is impossible to select any marked characteristic difference, and as this Rail is probably a migrant, as in Ceylon, I refer these Philippine birds to the Indian species. Mr. Blyth was of opinion that the race found in the Philippines was barely distinguishable (Jerd. I. ci). Brown (I. c.) described and figured, under the title of The Rail, this species from a Ceylonese example obtained by Governor Loten. At p. 96 he also described, and on plate xxxviii. he figured, a distinct bird from the same source under the title of Rail. Gmelin (I. c.) copied Brown's description of his Rail, and bestowed on it the title of Rallus zeylanicus. But Gmelin, while correctly quoting p. 96 of the Illustrations, incorrectly referred to plate xxxvii., on which is depicted Brown's The Rail. On Brown's description of The Rail Gmelin founded no title ; but when incorporating the Linnsean species Rallus capensis (Mantissa, p. 525) in his edition of the ' Systema' (/. c. No. 11) and more or less transcribing the Linnsean diagnosis, he followed Latham (Synop. iii. pt. i. p. 234. no. 8) and referred the Linnsean bird to the one described by Brown at p. 94 as well as to the one figured by Brown on plate xxxviii. Latham made the identification with a note of interrogation. Gmelin in both cases associated the wrong plate with the pages containing Brown's descrip- |