Recent rediscovery of the Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio porphyrio) at Xiamen (Amoy) together with its breeding colony has more likely than not shown a continuous occurrence of bird to the locality in the last 150 years since R. Swinhoe, and the current knowledge on the range of the bird in the mainland China is to become much larger than known before. Whilst, along with those new records of the bird emerged in southern China in the last decade years, recognition of the subspecies argued, and, if this paper could encourage drawing a bit more attention on the status of the Purple Gallinule in China in the years to come, the authors will be very pleased.