IS. EALLIXA. 75 



V" . Wliitc .spots on under winjr-coverts and 



white bars on breast narrower minahasa, p. 78. 



b". Hind neck and mantle rich che.stnut like 

 tlie head, throat, and chest; hack slaty; 

 fulvous bars on abdomen obsolete tricolor, p. 79. 



1 . Eallina fasciata. 



Eallus fasciatu.s liaffl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 328 (1822). 



GalliniUa eurvzona, Temm. PI. Col. \. p. 417 (1826). 



Kallusriificeps,('Mn>r, J/z<«. Paris; Less. Traite d'0r7i.-p. 557 (1831). 



Crex fasciata, BIyth, J. A. <S'. Beng. .\i. p. 71*7 (1842). 



Oiirethrura fasciata, Grmj, Gen. B. iii. p. 595 (1846). 



Porzana fasciata, Blijfh, 'Cnt. B. Mas. As. Soc. p. 285 (1849: Malacca, 

 Penang-) ; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 4>!3 (1874 : Tenasserim). 



Rallina eurvzona, lieic/icnb. ILuidh., Fulicaria, tab. cxx. fig. 1186 

 (1851) 



n_vpol»nidia euryzona, Beichenh. t. c. p. 23 (1852). 



Eurvzona fasciata, Bp. C. B. xliii. p. 599 (lS5f)). 



Kaliina fasciata, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Puilli, p. 19 (1865); id. X. 

 T. D. iii. p. 349 (1866); Hartl. P.Z.S. 1867, p. 831 (Pelew 

 Islands) ; Hartl. l^- Finsch, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 7 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 iii. p. 58, no. 10390 (1871); Salrad. Ucc. Born. p. 337 (1874); 

 Wuld. in BhitJis B. Burnt, p. 162 (1875) ; id. Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 231 

 (1875) ; Finsrh, Journ. Godefr. Mus. Ileft viii. p. 37 (1875 : Pelew 

 Islands) ; Jlunie S,- Harisan, Str. F. vi. p. 467 (1878: Tenasserim) ; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 70 (Malay Peninsula), p. 113 ; id. >^ Marsh. 

 Game Birds Ind. ii. p. 235, cum tab. (1879) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 271 (Lawa.s); id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 352 (Labuan) ; Briigg. 

 Abhandl. Bremen, v. p. 464 (1876 : Moera Teweh) ; Salvad. Om. 

 Papuasia.m. p. 264 (1882) ; Gates, Handh. B. Br. Biirm. ii. p. 341 

 (1883) ; Everett, J. As. Son. Straits Branch, 1889, p. 201 ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1890, p. 145 (Kina J?alu): Wiglesw. Abhandl. k. Zool. Mus. 

 Dresden, no. 6, p. tiO (1891); Scdvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) xii. 

 p. 141 (18t)2: Enp-ano). 



Gallinago fasciata, Sharpe, Ibis, 1883, p. 203 {lapsu). 



Adult male. General colour above ruddy brown, the scapulars 

 like the back; the rump a little more olive-brown; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail-feathers reddish brown ; lesser and median coverts 

 ruddy brown, with buffy white bars, each of which is margined with 

 black ; greater coverts black, rather broadly barred with white, as 

 well as the bastard-wing and primary-coverts ; quills blackish 

 brown, chequered with wliite spots on the outer web. and barred 

 with white on the inner one; the secondaries broadly barred and 

 iil)]ied with white, these white markings obsolete on the innermost 

 rufou.s-brown secondaries ; crown of head and neck, sides of face, 

 ear-covert.s, cheeks, throat, and chest chestnut, a little lighter on the 

 throat ; breast and sides of body white, broadly banded with black, 

 the abdomen white ; thighs white externally, ashy l)rown internally ; 

 under tail- coverts barred with black and white or rufous white; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, barred with black like the 

 inner lining of the quills : '■ bill dark horny ; orbital skin and gape 

 vermilion : feet and exjiosed portion of tibia bright coral-red : iris 

 dull cinnabar-red " (IP. Davison). Total length 8*o inches, culmen 

 95, wing 0-2, tail 1"9, tarsus 1-j. 



