Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author.

  • Edward Blyth
Date:
1875
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Credit: Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rails, Coots, etc. 1G1 *614. Nycticorax griseus (J. 937). Arakan, Bhamo. [Rangoon (W. i?.).] Fam. Eallidse. Rails, Coots, etc. *615. PoRPHYRIO POLIOCEPHALUS (J. 902). Arakan, Tenasserim. P. smaragdinotis is given from Siam.* [Tonghoo (TF. R.). Latham’s description agrees well with the common Indian purple Coot. He says nothing about a brown back, and that the whole head, neck, and lower parts are unicolorous pale lavender-blue, as stated by Mr. Hume (Str. Peath. iii. p. 185). Latham describes the bird as having the hack purple; the head and neck, blue-grey, growing to azure towards the chin ; breast and belly verditer green (Suppl. ii. p. 375).] *616. Gallicrex cristattjs (J. 904). Arakan, Tenasserim. [Upper Pegu (0.). Must stand G. cinereus (Gm.).] *617. PoRZANA PHCENICURA (J. 907). Rallusphcenicurus, Forster; Gould, B. As. pt. xxiv. pi. 12. Arakan, Tenasserim, Siam. Common. ‘[Tonghoo (TF. iZ.).] *618. P. maruetta (J. 909). Arakan. *619. P. pygmjca (J. 910). Common. *620. P. fusca (J. 911). Common. *621. HYroTRSNiniA striata (J. 913). Common. [Rangoon (W. i?.).] * Ibis, 1864, p. 246, note. [/’. smaragdinus, Tem. P. C. 421 = P. indicas, Horsf., and not the African P. smaragno- lus, Tem. — Gallinula madagascariensis, Lath., is the species alluded to.] 11