18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 64. 



taken from a Leyte, Philippine specimen, it may be briefly described 

 as follows : The top of the head and nape deep chestnut with a few 

 nearly obsolete black spots; upper parts, including the wing coverts- 

 and tail, blackish, with some olive brown borders to the feathers 

 (mostly worn off) and barred narrowly with white; remiges and 

 wing coverts chaetura drab with broken white bars ; chin and throat 

 white; lores, side of face, fore-neck, and breast neutral gray; sides,, 

 flanks, belly, crissum, and under wing coverts chaetura black barred 

 with white, the belly much lighter; the bill is dusky, lead color 

 towards the tip, the base of the lower mandible horn color for two- 

 thirds of the base (in the skin). It measures: Wing, 118; culmen^ 

 35 ; tarsus, 37 ; middle toe, 38. 



The female from Rano Lindoe is quite different. It lacks the 

 chestnut of the head, it being similar to the back; the back, wing- 

 coverts, and scapulars are black with broad olive-brown edges ta 

 the feathers and with a few white spots on the upper back, in a few 

 feathers of the scapulars and wing-coverts the spots become incip- 

 ient bars; the primary coverts and remiges uniform chaetura blacky 

 the first primary and a few of the inner secondaries with a few white 

 spots on the outer web only; below it is much like the male described 

 above, except the flanks are lighter and the belly buffy white un- 

 marked. I take it to be a not fully adult bird. 



The adult male seems to agree fairly well with Philippine speci- 

 mens (the type localitj'^ of the species), except the white bars above 

 are not interrupted (in Philippine birds the bars on the upper back 

 are interrupted and more in the nature of spots) ; this may or may 

 not be a constant variation. 



An adult female in the United States National Museum from Java 

 (No. 218,311) is quite different from the Philippine bird. The top 

 of the head and nape are lighter; the edges of the feathers broader 

 and hair brown (not olive-brown), the black centers more restricted 

 and the white bars on the wing-coverts with dusky shadow bars ; the 

 bars on the sides and flanks more restricted and almost entirely ab- 

 sent from the belly; the bill yellow, only dusky at the tip (in the 

 skin) . If additional specimens bear out these peculiarities, the Javan 

 race will have to be recognized and may stand as Hypotaenidia 

 striata gularis (Horsfield).^^ 



23. HYPOTAENIDIA PHILIPPENSIS CHANDLERI (Mathews.) »» 



One female, Kwandang, October 7, 1914 ; one male and one female, 

 Toll Toll, December 13 and 18, 1914; one female, Koelawi, Januarj' 



^ Rallus gulat-is Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 13, 1821, p. 196 (Java). 

 ^ EulaUecmis philippensis chandleri Mathevrs, Birds Australia, vol. 1, pt. 4, Aug. 9, 

 1911, p. 196 (Celebes). 



