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Adult male——Back, wings, rump, tail, and tail-coverts dark brown 
with a slight olive tinge; head, neck, throat, and breast bright chestnut ; 
posterior half of breast, abdomen, flanks, under 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.” (Hverett.) , 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 PORZANA Vieillot, 1816. 
Smallest of the Philippine rails; bill slender; middle toe with claw 
longer than tarsus. 
Species. 
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ase Wipper Str teCe VNIOTIN: ._ 20 B20. Ate 8 Ee ER ee an cthaceen etna plumbea (p. 7 
62. PORZANA AURICULARIS Reichenbach. 
PALLAS’S CRAKE, 
Porzana auricularis REICHENBACH, Jour. fiir Orn. (1898), 139; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 102; Oares, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1901), 1, 118. 
Porzana pusilla (not of Pallas) SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 
106; McGrrcor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 16. ‘ 
Luzon (Heriot). Eastern Siberia, Japan, China, Burmah, 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 ear- 
coverts to sides of neck; abdomen, flanks, and thighs blackish, mottled 
with white bars; under tail-coverts deep black, barred with white; lesser 
