2J. Juv. sk. Xejal. Hodfrson Coll. 



(Type of Zapornia nigrolineufa, Hodgs.) 

 5'. Ad. sk. Native Sikkim, Sept. (i. Hume Coll. 



MnndeUi). 

 r. Ad. sk. Thavetmvo. Tweeddale Coll. 



s. Ad. sk. Tliayetniyo, May. Gates Coll. 



f. Ad. sk. Malacca {Dr. Cantor). India Museum. 



u. Imm. sk. Malacca, August. Hume Coll. (Type 



of R. telmatophila.) 

 V, 10, X. Imm.sk. Malacca (Dr. JIainf/ai/). Tweeddale Coll. 



y. Imm. sk. Singapore. Gould Coll. 



3. Eallina euryzonoides *. (Plate VIII. fig. 1.) 



Gallinula eurizonoides, Zafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 368. 



Orty}i:ometra eurizona, pt., Gray, List Grail. Brit, Mus. p. 117 



(1844 : spec, ex Manila). 

 Eallina fasciata (m-c Rnffl.), Wakl. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 231 (1875). 

 Kallina eurvzonoides {iiec Lafr.), Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 767 



(Cebu), 1878, p. 288 (Valencia, Negros), p. 345 (S. Leyte) ; 



Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 274 (Sulu Isl.). 

 Eurvzona eurizonoides, iStejn. Proc. Post. Soc. X. H. xxiii. p. 463 



(1888). 



Adult male. General colour above dark chocolate-brown ; wings 

 perfectly uniform, with a little rufous on the coverts ; bastard-wiug 

 and primary-coverts blackish; quills also blackish brovrn, externally 

 chocolate-brown like the back ; tail-feathers like the back ; head 

 and hind neck, throat and chest deep vinous chestnut, the throat 

 whitish ; sides of breast olive-browu ; sides of body and flanks, 

 under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries black, barred 

 broadly with white, the bars on the under tail-coverts tinged with 

 rufous ; thighs olive-brown : " bill blackish, the base tinged light 

 green, tip greyish ; legs dull greenish leaden, feet dark lead grey, 

 nails grey ; iris brilliant red " {A. H. Everett). Total length S'o 

 inches, culmen I'i, wing 5"3, tail 2"7, tarsus l"5o. 



Hub. Philippine Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Manila. Hugh Cuming [C.]. 



6. Ad. sk. Manila {H. Cuming). Gould Coll. 



e, c?. d 2 ad. sk. Cebu, April {A. H. Ecerett). Tweeddale Coll. 



e. (S ad. sk. Valencia, Negros, Aug. [A. Tweeddale Coll. 



H. E.). 



f, q. S ad. ; h. Amparo, Leyte, July, Aug. Tweeddale Coll. 

 2 ad. sk. {A. IL E.). 



2, A-, /. S ad. ; m. South Leyte, Sept. (A. H. Tweeddale Coll. 

 2 ad. sk. E.). 



4. Eallina minahasa. (Plate VIII. fig. 2.) 



Rallus minahasa, Wall. P. Z. S. 1862, pp. 335, 346 (Sula Isl. ; 



Minahasa); Finsch, Neu-Gninea, p. 181 (1865); Sc/il. Xederl. 



Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 349 (1866) ; Blasius, J.f. 0. 1883, p. 140. 

 RaUina tricolor, pt., Schl. Mus. Pays-Pas, lialli, p. 18 (1865). 



* 2 a. Kallina sepiaria. 

 Dr. Stpjneger lias described Euryzona sepiaria (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 395, 

 1887), from the Liu tiu Islands, as being closely allied to B. eurizonoides. 



