IS. RALLIXA. 77 



J'orz;ina supevciliari-:, Bli/th, Cat. li. Mat. As. S)c. p. 339 (184!)). 

 Cort'tlii'ura zeylauica, Keliart, Prodr. Cut. p. 135 (1802). 

 I'Airyzona eiii-vzouoides, Bp. {tvc Lufr.) C. R. xliii. p. 599(1856). 

 Porzana z>>ylaiuca (lu-c Gin.), Blijth, IhU, 18l)7, pp. 171, .309. 

 I'oiv.aua aiiiauroptera, Jerd. B. lad. iii. p. 725 (1864, ex Bl'/th, 



MSS.) ; Bbith, Ibis, 1867, p. 310; Hume, Sti: F. i. p. 440(1873), 



iii. p. 188 (1879). 

 llalliim eiirvzonides, Gray [nee Lafr.), Hnnd-l iii. p. 58 (1871); 



Tweedd. >. Z. .S". 1877, p. 707 ; Ifiime, Str. F. viii. p. 113 (1879) : 



Leijue, B. Cei/l(in, p. 772 (1879) ; Hume i,- Marsh. Game B. hid. ii. 



p. 2.'>7, cum tab. (1879) ; Dates, Handh. B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 340 



(1SS3J. 

 Ealliiia cevlouica, -ffftW.s(r. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 476; Wald. in Blyth, 



B. Burm. p. 102 (1875). 

 Rallus telmatopliila, Hiane, Sfr. F. vii. ]). 142 (187S) ; id. t. c. p. 451. 

 Kallina superriliai-is. Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 70 (1879); Sahad. Oni. 



Papuasia, iii. p. 275 (1882). 

 Eui'vzona eurizonoidiis amauroptera, Stejn. Proc. Bust. Soc. X. H. 



xxiii. p. 462 (1888). 



Adidt male. General colour above dark olive-brown ; the "wings 

 and tail like the back, excepting- for a few white bars on the coverts, 

 tliese bars having a conterminous black line above and below ; quills 

 dark brown, externally olive-brown ; crown of head and hind neck, 

 throat and chest bright chestnut ; the chin and upper throat white; 

 remainder of under surface of body white, barred with dusky black, 

 the bands on the sides of the body being broader; al)donien white, 

 with narrow dusky bars ; under wing-coverts and axillaries barred 

 with black and white like the under tail-coverts ; sides of upper 

 breast marked with olive-brown : '• base of upper mandible and the 

 greater portion of tbe lower one green ; remainder of bill dark 

 brown ; legs black ; claws dark horn-colour ; iris blood-red ; 

 eyelids grey" {E. W. Gates). Total length 8-7 inches, culmcn 1"2, 

 wing 5"1, tail 2*3, tarsus 1'5. 



Adult f email'. Similar to the male, but slightly more ruddy brown 

 and without any white bars on the wing-coverts ; the forehead, eye- 

 brow, sides of face, lower throat, and chest bright chestnut, but the 

 chin and upper throat white : the hinder crown and neck ruddy 

 browu like the back. 



Yoioi'j. Differs from the adult in wanting the rufous on the head 

 and throat, the latter being white with only a faint rufous tinge ; 

 the general colour above Avarm olive-brown ; the head like the back, 

 with a little rufous tinge on the forehead and eyebrow ; chest olive- 

 brown, with a rufous tinge in the centre. 



Hah. India and Ceylon, to the Burmese countries and the Malayan 

 Peninsula. 



a-f. cJ 2 ad.; Ceylon {H. Xevill). Tweeddale Coll. 



(/. J II v. sk. 



/', '. d 2 ad. sk. Cevlon. Hume Coll. 



/.;. Ad. sk. Ceylou. E. L. Layard, Esq. [C.]. 



l> '"• 0* 2 iiJ- sk. Ciiioinbo, Cevlon, Oct., Nov. Hume Coll. 



{Hart). 



ti. Ad. sk. Myuall, S. Travancore. Ilume Coll. 



o. (S ad. sk. Cawupore, June (3. Hume Coll. 



