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whether merely local is not known. At the end of October 1909, 

 after a period of heavy wind and rain, this bird appeared in large 

 numbers near Alor Star, Kedah; Gyldenstolpe^^ gives the addi- 

 tional locality, Kliun Tan, which seems to be unusually far north for 

 it; the record may belong to the next species. 



The range of the species is from southern Burma south over the 

 Jvlalay Peninsula to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Philippine Islands 

 and southward to the Moluccas; Pelew Islands. Possibly only a 

 winter visitor in the southern part of its range. 



RALLINA NIGROLINEATA (G. R. Gray) 



Zapornia nigrolineala G. R. Ghay, Catalogue of the specimens and drawings of 

 Mammalia and birds of Nepal and Thibet. . . , p. 143, 1846. — Hodgson, in 

 Gray's Zool. Misc., no. 3, p. 86, 1844 (Nepal; nomen nudum). 



Rallus superciliaris Eyton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, vol. 16, p. 230, 1845 

 (Malay Peninsula); not Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., ed. 2, vol. 28, p. 

 565, 1819. 



Porzana amauroptera Jerdoist, The birds of India, vol. 3, p. 725, 1864 (northern 

 India). 



Dr. Abbott took a male near the base of Kao Num Plu, Trang, 

 March 9, 1897. 



He records the color of the soft parts as follows: Iris orange; bill 

 blue-black, leaden blue beneath; feet dark leaden. 



This species differs from R.fasciaia in having the white spots on the 

 outer webs of the outer primaries reduced to two toward the base and 

 only one or two wliite spots on the outer web of the outer primary 

 covert, and the other wing coverts outwardly unspotted; the back 

 olive-brown rather than rood brown. R. Jasciata has the outer web 

 of the primaries barred with white or light buff to near the tip, and all 

 the wing coverts, except the lesser, barred blacldsh and white. R. 

 Jasciata has a smaller wing and shorter bill; wing in two specimens, 

 122-122.5 mm; culmen, 22-23 mm. In the single male of R. nigro- 

 lineata listed above, the wing measures 141 mm and the culmen 

 29 mm. 



There is a female in the United States National Museum collected 

 by Dr. W. L. Abbott at the Mandau River, East Sumatra, December 

 1, 1906, that differs from the Trang male as follows: The pileum is the 

 same color as the back (prouts brown); the cheeks a much lighter 

 brown; a supraloral streak to the middle of the eye above, hazel; 

 foreneck and upper chest saccardos umber, with tawny centers to 

 feathers showing through; lower chest with a broad band of tawny 

 just above the black and white bars of the breast; there are no white 

 bars on the inner webs of the primaries, except at the extreme base. 

 This is probably changing from the immature to adult plumage. 



»' Ibis, 1920, p. 763. 



