70 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



60. RALLINA FASCIATA (Eaffles). 



MALAY BANDED CRAKE. 



Rallus fasciatus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1822), 13, pt. 2, 328. 

 Rallina fasciata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 75; Hand-List 

 (1899), 1, 99; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 16. 



Balabac (Everett); Mindoro (Porter); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen) . Bur- 

 mese provinces, Malay Peninsula, Indo-Malayan Islands, Halmhera, Pelew Islands. 



"Adult male. — General color -above ruddy brown, scapulars like the 

 back : rump a little more olive-brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers 

 reddish brown; lesser and median coverts rudd}- brown, with huffy white 

 bars, each of which is margined witli black; greater coverts black, rather 

 broadly barred with white, as well as the alula and primary-coverts; 

 quills blackish brown, checkered with white spots on outer web, and 

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

 with white, these white markings obsolete on the innermost, rufous-brown 

 secondaries; crown, neck, sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and 

 chest chestnut, a little lighter on the throat; breast and sides white, 

 broadly banded with black, the abdomen white; thiglis white externally, 

 ashy brown internally ; under tail-coverts barred with black and white or 

 rufous- white ; under wing-coverts and axillars white, barred with black 

 like the inner lining of quills. 'Bill dark horny; orbital skin and gape 

 vermilion; feet and exi^osed portion of tibia bright coral-red; iris dull 

 cinnabar-red.' (Davidson.) Length, 216; culmen, 24; wing, 132; tail, 

 48; tarsus, 46. 



"Adult female. — Similar to the male in color, but a little browner, and 

 with narrower black bars on the under surface, the abdomen being, there- 

 fore, whiter. 'Bill plumbeous; feet coral-red; iris reddish brown.' 

 (Davidson.) Length, 230 ; culmen, 23 ; wing, 124 ; tail, 48 ; tarsus, 38. 



"Young. — Differs from the adult in being browner, the bands on the 

 wing being huffy white; sides of face, fore neck, and chest ashy brown, 

 with a rufous tinge; throat whitish, as also the breast and abdomen, 

 which have a few bars of dusky blackish on the sides of the body." 



(Sharpe.) 



61. RALLINA EURI20N0IDES (Lafresnaye). 



PHILIPPINE BANDED CRAKE. 



Gallinula euri;:onoides Lafresxaye, Rev. Zool. (184.5), 368. 



RaUina euryzonoides Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 26, 78, pL 8, 



fig. 1; Hand-List (1899 I, 1, 100; McGregor and Worcester. Hand-List 



(1906), 16. 



Basilan (McGregor); Cagayancillo {McGregor); Cebu (Everett); Leyte 

 (Everett) ; Luzon (Cuming, Dussumier, Mollendorff, Bovrns <f Worcester) ; Min- 

 danao (Bourns d Worcester); Mindoro (McGregor, Porter); Negros (Everett) ; 

 Panay (Bourns d Worcester) ; Sulu (GuiUcmard) . 



