3. IIYPOT-ESIDIA. 37 



Subsp. a. Hypotaenidia obscurior. 



Ualliis striatus (ncc L.), Bull, Sir. F. i. p. 8(5 (187:^). 



lIvi)ota;nidiiv stiiat;i (nee L.}, IValdea, Ibis, 1874, p. 146; Ilumf, 



'Utr. F. ii. p. :Wo (1874). 

 Ilvpoticnidia obscuriora, Hume, Sfr. F. ii. p. 3U2 (1874), iv. p. '2Ui 



'(1870) ; id. .Str. F. viii. p. 113 (1879); id. ^- Marsh. Game Ii. hid. 



ii. p. 2/j;3, pi. 43. ti<r. 1 ; Outcx, ed. Hume's Xests 4" Fggs Ind. B. iii. 



p. 400 (1890). 

 llypotienidia I'errea, U'aldeu, Ihis, 1874, p. 147. 

 llvpoUenidia abuormi.-i, Hume, Str.F. iii. p. 389 (1875), & iv. p. 291 



■(I87(3j ; id. !Sti: F. viii. p. 113 (1870). 



Adult male. Similar to //. striata, but everywhere darker ; the 

 back and wings blacker and the riifous of the head deeper and more 

 of a vinous chestnut ; the grey of the throat and breast much darker 

 and the flanks and sides of body blackish, more narrowly barred 

 with white ; bill larger than in JJ. striata : " bill horny, light red at 

 gape ; feet dark greenish horny ; iris brown " ( W. Davison). Total 

 length 11-5 inches, eulmen 1-7, wings b'o, tail 2-1, tarsus I'O. 



Adult female. Similar to the male iu colour. Total length 11 

 inches, eulmen 1"G5, wing 5-2, tail 2"5, tarsus 1-3. 



Hub. Andaman Islands. 



ti. Juv.sk. Uorbyn's Cove, S. Andaman?, Hume Coll. (Type of 



Sept. 25 (.4. de Roepstorff). H. ahnwmis.) 



b. 5 ad. sk. South Auilamans, April 2-5 (i?. Tweeddale Coll. 



0. W.li.). {Ty^pes oUL/errca.) 



f><^- 6 2 ad- sk. South Audanians, June, Sept. Ilume Coll. 



(i?. J. U'imherley). 

 i: cJ ad. sk. South Andainans, Sept. 25 {F. Hume Coll. 



A. de Foepstorff). 

 f,(j. c?ad.;/<. 2 Port lilair, July (R. J. U'im- Tweeddale Coll. 



lid. sk. berby). 



i,k. ad.sk. Pi.rt Blair, Aug. (R.J. U'im- Hume Coll. 



berb-i/). 

 I. Ad.sk. Mount Harriet, Nov. 20 ( //'. Hume Coll. 



iJaci.idH). 

 mo. cf ad. sk. Abirilceii, April, May (IV. Hume Coll. 



lJ(ivi!<(j)i). 



•2. Hypotaenidia brachypus *. 



llidliis pectoralis (nee Gould), Less. Traite, p. 53G (1831, ex Cuvier 

 MSS. in Mus. Paris: descr. nulla); Grai/, Gen. B. iii. p. 593 

 (184(;) ; Pucker. Rev. et May. de Zool. l8ol, p. 27G. 



Kallus brachypus, >)>icains. An. in Menar/. p. 330 (1837) ; Gray, List 



* .Ulied to this species is the apparently extinct 

 Hyi'ot.esidia pacific*. 

 Pacific Rail, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 2.">5 (ITSS). 

 Kallus pacificus, Gm. Syst. ^at. i. p. 717 (1788); Forster, Icon. ined. 

 pi. 128 ; if/. Ufscr. Anim. p. 177 (1844) ; WiyUsw. Abhandl. k. Mus. Dresd. 

 no. «, p. 00(1891). 



•■ Black, with white spots or bars ; abtloiuen. throat, and eyebrow wbi'.e ; bind 

 neck ferruijinous ; breast grey ; bill bluod-retl ; iris red "' (Forster). 

 Hub. Tahiti. 



