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57. HYPOTAENIDIA STRIATA (Linneus). 
BLUE-BREASTED RAIL, 
Rallus striatus LINN&XUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 262. 
Hypotenidia striata SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 33; Hand- 
List (1899), 1, 95; Oates, Cat. Bird’s Eggs (1901), 1, 111; McGrecor 
and WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 15. 
Tic-ling, general name for rails. 
Calamianes (Bouwrns & Worcester) ; Cebu (Everett) ; Guimaras (Steere Hap.) ; 
Leyte (Hverett) ; Luzon (Cuming, McGregor, Gevers) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere 
Ezp., Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow); Mindoro (McGregor, Porter) ; Negros 
(Steere Exp., Keay); Palawan (Celestino, White); Panay (Steere Hxp., Bourns 
é& Worcester); Samar (Steere Hxp.); Sibuyan (Bourns & 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-gray ; 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, 246; culmen, 38; wing, 120; tail, 47; tarsus, 37. 
“Adult female—Similar to the male, but paler and decidedly 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 entirely 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. HYPOTAENIDIA PHILIPPENSIS (Linnzus). 
PECTORAL RAIL, 
Rallus philippensis LINNZXUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 263. 
Hypotenidia philippinensis SHarre, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 39; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 96; OaTrEs, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1901), 1, 113; 
McGrecor and WorcEstTER, Hand-List (1906), 16. 
Batan (Edmonds); Luzon (Everett, Whitehead, McGregor). Pacifie Islands, 
Malay Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand. 
“Adult male-—General color above ochraceous-brown, all the feathers 
black, with ochraceous edgings, and spangled with white spots on the 
