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57. HYPOT/ENIDIA STRIATA (Linnteus). 

 BLUE-BREASTED RAIL. 



Rallus striatus Linn.eus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 262. 



Hypotcenidia striata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 33; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 95; Gates, Cat. Bird's Eggs (1901), 1, 111; McGregor 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 15. 



Tic-ling, general name for rails. 



Calamianes (Bourns d Wot'cester) ; Cebu (Everett) ; Guiniaras (Steere Exp.) ; 

 Leyte (Everett) ; Luzon (Cuming, McGregor, Gevers) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (McGregor, Porter); Negros 

 (Steere Exp., Keay) ; Palawan (Celestino, White); Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns 

 cC- Worcester) ; Samar (Steere Exp.) ; Sibuyan (Bourns cC- Worcester) ; Siquijor 

 (Bourns & Worcester) ; Sulu (Guillemard) . Burmese countries to China, Malay 

 Peninsula, Indo-Malay Islands, Southern India, Ceylon, Formosa, Celebes. 



Adult male. — Above olive-brown, feathers centered with black and 

 barred with broken white lines ; crown, neck, and sides of neck dull chest- 

 nut, brighter on the last ; center of crown blackish ; chin and upper throat, 

 lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts, lower throat, fore neck, and breast 

 slate-gra}'; posterior lower part of body, under wing-coverts, and axillars 

 blackish barred with white; alula blackish brown; primary-coverts and 

 primaries blackish brown spotted and barred with white; tail and its 

 coverts similar to the back. "Basal half of bill rose-pink, the anterior 

 half horn-color; legs and toes deep olive-brown; claws pale brown; iris 

 red." ( Oates. ) Length, 24G ; culmen, 38 ; wing, 1?0 ; tail, -i? ; tarsus, 37. 



"Adult female. — Similar to the male, but paler and decidedl}' more 

 olive, head not so bright chestnut ; white bars on lower parts much tinged 

 with fulvous. Length, 240 ; culmen, 35 ; wing, 110 ; tail, 41 ; tarsus, 35. 



"In winter the plumage is entirel}" overshaded with olive-brown and 

 there is a distinct fulvescent tinge on abdomen and under tail-coverts, 

 almost hiding the black bars on the latter. 



"Young. — Differs from the adults in having the bill black, and the 

 upper surface much darker and without any white spots and bars on the 

 back; head blackish, and back darker olive-brown with broad black cen- 

 ters to the feathers; no rufous on the head or sides of crown and sides 

 of neck.'' (Sharpe.) 



58. HYPOT/ENIDIA PHILIPPENSIS (Linnteus). 



PECTORAL RAIL. 



Rallus phUijypcvsis LiXN.EUS, Syst. Xat. ed. 12 ( 1766) , 1 , 263. 

 Hypolanidia philippiucnsis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, .39; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 96; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901). 1, 113; 



McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 16. 



Batan (Edmonds) ; Luzon (Everett, Whitehead, McGregor). Pacilic Islands, 

 Malay Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand. 



"Adult viale. — General color above ochraceous-brown. all the feathers 

 black, with ochraceous edgings, and spangled with white spots on the 



