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Show 271 ON RIRDS COLLECTED BY THE YACHT 'MARCHESA.' [Mar. 1/, 62. RALLINA EURYZONOIDES (Lafresnaye). Gallinula euryzonoides, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 368I; RaU™a euryzonoides, Tweedd. P.Z.S. 1877, p- 767 ; 1878, pp. ^88, o^o. Hab. Luzon? (Cuming); Negros, Leyte, and Zebu (Everett); Sulu (Guillemard). a. 3 . Sulu Island. Iris orange ; bill slate, base of lower mandible pea-green ; tarsus olive-green. From the absence of any marked ruddy tinge on the back, and from the colouring of the "feet and tarsi, I have referred this Sulu specimen to R. euryzonoides, though I have had no opportunity of comparing it with that species. The black and white barring of the abdomen is broader than in R.fasciata, the feet of which species are described by Doria as being of a lovely carmine. 63. ARDETTA SINENSIS (Gmelin). Ardetta sinensis, Wald. Tr. Z. S. vol. ix. pt. 2, p. 237 ; Salvad. Orn. della Pap. p. 363. Hab. "Philippines" (Schlegel, Leschenault, Mus. Lugd.); Sulu (Guillemard) ; Celebes (Meyer); Borneo (Schwaner). a. 3 . Sulu Island. Iris yellow; bill yellowish, culmen black ; feet bluish black, marked with green. 64. DEMIEGRETTA SACRA (Gmelin). Demiegretta sacra, Tweedd. P.Z.S. 1877, p. 551; Wald. Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 100. Hab. Zebu (H.M.S. ' Challenger'); Sulu (Guillemard) ; Celebes ( Von Rosenberg) ; Borneo (Mottley). a. 3 • Sulu Island. Iris yellow ; bill and tarsus lead-colour. This example has a few white feathers on the throat and chin. The species is fairly abundant in Sulu, but I have never seen them in the numbers in which thev are found on the northern coasts of Celebes. In this latter country they frequent the sandy mouths of the rivers in small flocks, in which the white varieties are not unfrequently to be seen. 65. BUTORIDES JAVANICA (Horsfield). Butorides javanica, Wald. Tr. Z. S. vol. ix. pt. 2, p. 237; id. Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 100. Hab. Luzon (Jagor) • Negros (Steere) ; Zebu, Leyte, Dinagat, Mindanao, and Palawan (Everett); Sulu (Guillemard); Celebes (Forsten, fyc.) ; Borneo (Mottley). a, b. 3. Sulu Island. Iris orange-yellow ; bill black, base of lower mandible yellowish ; bare skin round eye greenish ; feet and tarsus orange-yellow. Length 46*0 centims. ; wing 17*3 centims. Salvadori (Orn. della Pap.) gives the colour of the feet as "jiavo-virescentibus; " in Mr. Everett's Zebu bird ( 3 ) they were " dull dark chrome "in one |