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Bantayan {McGregor) ; Bongao (Everett); Cagayancillo {McOregor) ; Ca- 

 miguin N. (McGregor); Catandiianes [Whitehead); Cebu (Everett, Bourns d- 

 Worcester, McGregor) ; Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Everett); Luzon (Cuming, 

 Meyer, Everett, Bourns d- Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque (Hteerc 

 Exp.) Masbate (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; ilindanao (Steere Exp., Bourns 

 d Worcester, Goodfeltou-) ; Mindoro (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Xegros 

 [Everett, Keay) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester); Romblon (Bourns 

 d Worcester, McGregor) ; Samar (Hteere Exp., Bourns d- Worcester) ; Sibuyan 

 (McGregor) ; Siquijor ( Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) ; Ticao (McGregor) ; Verde 

 (McGregor) . 



Adult (sexes alike). — Above olive-brown with a few, obscure, black 

 lines on forehead ; lores and circumocular area black, continued as a wide 

 black band behind eye to side of nape; below this a wide white band 

 from gape to neck, slightly washed with chestnut at its end; chin gray; 

 throat and lower part of face black; lower throat and rest of lower parts 

 lilack profusely banded with white; vent and under tail-coverts washed 

 with clay-brown; a wide band of chestnut across breast; under wing- 

 coverts and axillars barred with black and white like the breast. Iris 

 red: bill, legs, and nails brown. Three males: Length, 317 to 330; 

 wing, 151 to 155; tail, 54 to 65; exposed culmen, 41 to 43; tarsus, 52 

 to 53; middle toe with claw, 52, 55. Two females: Length, 305, 317; 

 wing, 142, 144; tail, 51, (iO; exposed culmen, 39, 41: tarsus, 51, 52; 

 middle toe with claw, 51, 52. 



Young. — Kesembles the adult but iuis more white on the chin; band 

 across breast wider and olive-brown : vent and under tail-coverts barred 

 with reddish brown. 



"//. torquata usually deposits four eggs, nu)re rarely tliree. The 

 ground-color of the egg is creamy white, sparingly marked with spots 

 and a few blotches of brown varying from dark chocolate to reddish, 

 and with more numerous spots and blotches of pale lilac ; all the markings 

 more numerous at the larger end. 'i'en eggs a\erage 38 by 28.4." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



The Philippine rail is the most abundant species of its family with 

 the ])ossible exception of Poliolitnna.s ciiii'n'us : both species are often 

 taken in snares. 



Genus IJALLI.\.\ Kci(henl)arh. 1SI0. 



The species of this genus are of small size witii short stout bills: 

 middle toe with claw shorter than tarsus: head, neck, and chest chestnut; 

 sides and abdomen barred with white. 



Species. 



a\ Wing-coverts broadly barred witli wliite or buffy-white fasciata (p. 70) 



a-. Wing coverts uniform or with few irregular white bars.... eurizonoides (p. 70) 



