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white ; the sides of the head, the f oreneck, and the breast ashy gray ; 

 the remaining underparts barred dark brown and white. 



There is considerable difference in size between jouyi of Kiangsu 

 and gularis of Java. In this respect the resident birds of Thailand 

 are intermediate between the two, and I follow Riley (1938) in using 

 the name albiventer for our race. 



RALLINA FASCIATA (Raffles) 



Red-legged Banded Rail 



Rallus fasciatus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, 1822, p. 328 (Su- 

 matra ; type locality restricted to Benkulan, by Kinnear and Robinson, Bull. 

 Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 47, 1927, p. 130). 



Rallina fasciata, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 235 (listed) ; 

 Ibis, 1920, p. 763 (Khun Tan). 



The only northern example of this species is an unsexed bird in 

 Stockholm, taken by Eisenhofer at Khun Tan sometime prior to 

 1915 (probably in 1913). 



This apparently rare rail has the head, neck, and breast bright 

 rufous, somewhat paler on the throat ; the remaining upperparts dark 

 rufous; the primaries and upper wing coverts blackish brown with 

 white bars ; the remaining underparts broadly banded black and white. 



rallina eurizonoides nigrolineata (g. r. gray) 

 Slaty-legged Banded Rail 



Zapornia nigrolineata G. R. Gray, Catalogue of . . . Mammalia and birds of 

 Nepal and Thibet . . . British Museum, 1846, p. 143. In synonymy of Rallus 

 superciliaris Eyton, ex Hodgson, Gray's Zoological Miscellany, 1844, p. 86, 

 nom en nudum (Nepal). 



Rallina superciliaris superciliaris, Rogers and Deignan, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, 1934, p. 92 (Doi Ang Ka). 



I took the only northern specimen on Doi Ang Ka at about 5,000 

 feet, April 14, 1931. This bird, a female with inactive gonads, was 

 shot at dusk among bamboos at the edge of wet, evergreen forest. The 

 stomach contained insects. 



It had the irides bright orange ; the edges of the eyelids light orange ; 

 the maxilla green at the extreme base, then pale blue, otherwise blackish 

 brown ; the mandible pale blue at the extreme base, then green, other- 

 wise plumbeous ; the edges of the commissure horny ; the feet and toes 

 slate color ; the claws dark brownish slate. 



The adult has the throat white; the head, neck, and breast bright 

 rufous; the remaining upperparts and the wings dark olive-brown; 

 the remaining underparts banded black and white. 



Our two species of Rallina are very similar in plumage. The present 

 form has a proportionately much larger bill. They may, however, be 

 most easily distinguished by the color of the feet, which in fasciata are 



