PORZAXA. 71 



Adult male. — Back, wings, nimp, tail, aud tail-coverts dark brown 

 with a slight olive tinge ; head, neck, throat, and breast bright chestnut ; 

 posterior half of breast, abdomen, flanks, nnder tail-coverts, under wing- 

 coverts and axillars black with wide white cross-bars, most conspicuous 

 on the breast ; thighs brown with but little white ; primaries and second- 

 aries blackish with wide white bars on inner webs. "Bill blackish, the 

 base tinged light green, tip grayish ; legs dull greenish leaden ; feet dark 

 lead-gray; nails gray; iris brilliant red." (Everett.) Length of a male 

 from Basilan, 254; wing, 128; tail, 65; exposed culmen, 23; tarsus, 46; 

 middle toe with claw, 37. 



Adult female. — Differs little if any from the male. A specimen from 

 Cagayancillo had upper mandible black; lower mandible pea-green, tip 

 bluish ; legs very dark green ; nails dark brown. Length, 215 ; wing, 128 ; 

 tail, 69 ; exposed culmen, 23 ; tarsus, 40 ; middle toe with claw, 35. 



"So far as our observation goes R. eurizonoides is a woods form, all of 

 our specimens having been killed in deep forest. Eyes orange-red; legs 

 and feet dark olive; upper mandible nearly black; lower olive-green." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus POEZAXA Yieillot, 1816. 



Smallest of the Philippine rails; bill slender; middle toe with claw 



longer than tarsus. 



Species. 



(1^. Upper surface freckled with white auricularis (p. 71) 



a'. Upper surface uniform plumbea (p. 72) 



02. PORZANA AURICULARIS Reiclienbach. 

 PALLAS'S CRAKE. 



Porzana auricularis Reichenbach, Jour, fiir Orn. (1898), 139; Sharpe, 

 Hand-List (1899), 1, 102; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 118. 



Porzana pusillw (not of Pallas) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 

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



Luzon (Heriot). Eastern Siberia, Japan, China, Burniah. India, Ceylon, 

 Borneo. 



Adult male. — General color above dark ochraceous-brown with black 

 centers to nearly all the feathers which are marked with white spots 

 freckled with black; lower back black, freckled with white but only 

 slightly washed with ochraceous-brown; upper tail-coverts ochraceous- 

 brown with black centers ; center of crown and hind neck dark ochraceous 

 or reddish brown, only faintly streaked with black centers to the feathers ; 

 forehead and broad eyebrow as well as entire side of face, throat, and 

 breast clear slaty gray; a distinct band of reddish brown along car- 

 coverts to sides of neck; abdomen, flanks, and thighs blackish, mottled 

 with white bars; under tail-coverts deep black, barred with white; lesser 



