44 RALLID^. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-brown, a little more dingy 

 on tbc lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, with slight indi- 

 cations of blackish cross bars on the rump ; wing-coverts like the 

 back, a little more ruddy brown on the greater series ; bastard-wing 

 blackish, externally olive-brown, spotted on the outer web and 

 barred on the inner web with white ; primary-coverts and quills 

 reddish brown, the coverts and primaries chequered with dusky 

 markings on the outer web, the inner web dusky brown, with 

 reddish mottled bars; the innermost secondaries olive-brown, like 

 the back ; tail-feathers olive-brown, with a ruddy brown tinge ; 

 crown of head like the back, the forehead rather more grey ; lores 

 and feathers round the eye black, extended into a broad black band, 

 which reaches the sides of the nape ; sides of face and throat also 

 black, with a broad longitudinal band of white crossing the sides of 

 the face and ear-coverts ; chin greyish ; remainder of under surface 

 of body from the lower throat downwards profusely barred with 

 black and white, the black bars being the broader and the white 

 ones the narrower; vent and under tail-coverts somewhat tinged 

 with reddish brown ; across the chest a broad band of rich maroon- 

 chestnut ; under wing-coverts and axillaries barred with black and 

 white, exactly like the breast; quills reddish brown below, barred 

 with white on the inner webs of the primaries, each white bar 

 bordered with a black line : " biU black ; feet and legs brown ; iris 

 light blood-red" (A. II. Everett). Total length 11 inches, culmen 

 1-5, wing 6, tail 2-3, tarsus 1-9, middle toe and claw l-'J. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour: "iris bright Indian- 

 red or crimson" (A. H. Everett). Total length 11 inches, culmen 

 1-4, wing 5-8, tail 2-35, tarsus 1-9, middle toe and claw 1-9. 



Young. Duller brown than the adult, and distinguished by its 

 white throat and olive-brown chest-band, the sides of the vent and 

 under tail-coverts reddish brown, bordered with black. 



Hah. Philippine Islands. 



n. Ad. sk. Philippines. Hugh Cuming [C.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Phihppines. Gould Coll. 



a. Ad. St. Luzon. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



<-,/. $. ad. et imm. Luzon, Jan. {A. B. Mei/er). Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. 



f/-/. (5 ad. ; A-, /. 2 Monte Alban, Feb., March Tweeddale Coll. 

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m,n. r? ad. et iuv. Maiinduque, Mav. E. L. Moselev, Esq. 



sk. " [C.]. 



o,p. (S 9. ad. .sk. Cebu, March, April {A. II. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett), 



q P ad. sk. Valencia, Negros, Aug. Tweeddde Coll. 



(^. H. E.). 



r, s. S 2 ad. sk. Aniparo, S. Leyte, July Tweeddale Coll. 



(.4. H. EX 



t. 2 ad. sk. Dinagat, Julv (A. H. E.). Tweeddale CoU. 



u. 2 ad. sk. Butuan, May (A. H. E.). Tweeddale Coll. 



