Four eggs collected by Whitehead in Samar, August 25, 1896, are thus described: "The eggs are perfectly similar to those laid by European moorhens, but the number of eggs in the clutch, as well as their relatively smaller size, is noteworthy. Measurements 42 by 39." (Grant and Whitehead.) Genus GALLICREX Blyth, 1849. Bill stout and of moderate length; frontal shield pointed behind, much larger in males than in females, and in the breeding season terminating in a free horn-like process; legs and toes very long and heavy. 70. GALLICREX CINEREA (Gmelin). WATERCOCK. Fulica cinerea Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, pt. 2, 702. Gallicrex cinerea Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 183; Hand-List (1899), 1, 108; Grant, Ibis (1895), 265; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 176, fig. 38 (head); Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 125; pl. 10, fig. 6; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 18. Can-nu-toc', Manila; tub-tub, Ticao; tu-yud', Bohol; tug-tug, Masbate. Bantayan (McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Catanduanes (Whitehead); Cebu (Bourns & Worcester); Luzon (Dussumier, Cuming, Heriot, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow); Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester); Negros (Keay); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Sibuyan (McGregor); Sulu (Guillemard); Tablas (Celestino); Ticao (McGregor). Ceylon, Burmese provinces to China and Japan, Malay and Indian Peninsulas, Greater Sunda Islands. "Adult male.--General color above black, with a few remains of ashy gray margins to the feathers, or with brown edgings to the scapulars, lower back, and rump; upper wing-coverts blackish, broadly edged with ashy gray; bend of wing white; alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, slightly shaded with gray externally, first primary externally white; inner secondaries edged with light brown; tail-feathers blackish, edged with brown; head and neck all round and under surface of body deep black; a few whitish feathers on lower abdomen; under tail-coverts buffy white, with black bars; under wing-coverts black, barred and edged with white; axillars black like the sides of the breast. 'Frontal shield and base of upper mandible deep red; remainder of bill yellow, a spot on each side of lower mandible red; frontal process or horn pinkish; legs plumbeous green; claws horn-color; iris reddish brown; eyelids plumbeous.' (Oates.) Length, 419; culmen with frontal shield, 69; wing, 218; tail, 74; tarsus, 79. "According to Oates, the male in winter has the fleshy process on the head reduced in size or nearly obsolete.