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AMAURORNIS. To 
“Adult male-—Similar to ZL. fuscus, and having red legs like the latter 
species ; upper surface ashy brown, as also the wings and tail; head ashy 
brown, with a rufous tinge on the forehead; lores, sides of face, throat, 
and breast pale vinous-chestnut ; chin whitish ; sides of breast ashy brown ; 
flanks and thighs white, barred with dusky blackish; under tail-coverts 
black, barred and tipped with white; axillars and under wing-coverts 
white, with dusky blackish bars. ‘Bill bluish gray, blackish on the cul- 
men and about the tip, pea-green about the base; inside of mouth flesh- 
color; iris crimson; eyelid red; legs and toes salmon-color, brownish on 
the under surface of the tarsi, on the toes, and on their soles.’ 
(Swinhoe.) Length, 215; culmen, 28; wing, 119; tail, 55; tarsus, 38. 
“Young (type of Rallina rufigenis) —Similar to the adult, but duller 
above, paler rufous below, the abdomen white with a vinous tinge; throat 
white; wing-coverts much more numerously banded with white.” 
( Sharpe.) 
Steere is the only author who has recorded this species from the 
Philippines. 
Genus AMAURORNIS Reichenbach, 1852. 
Bill rather stout; base of upper mandible slightly swollen; legs and 
feet large; middle toe with claw longer than tarsus; plumage with 
neither spots nor bars. 
Species. 
Chim.) throat, and tpreast slate-omaiy <2. - 2220-2 seeetecnee ere carennedeeneee olivacea (p. 75) 
ae @hin, throat, andy breast: Pure. WN Ube s.-2cc! 23 eo oceee et cceneoennstanc phenicura (p. 76) 
67. AMAURORNIS OLIVACEA (Meyen). 
PHILIPPINE WATERHEN. 
Gallinula olivacea MEYEN, Nova Acta C. L-C. Acad. Nat. Cur. (1834), 16, 
Suppl. 1, 109, pl. 20. 
Amaurornis olivacea WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 231, pl. 33, fig. 
1; SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 153; Hand-List (1899), 
1, 106; GRANT and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 247 (eggs) ; OATES, Cat. 
Birds’ Eggs (1901), 1, 120. 
Amauronis olivacea McGregor and WorcrEsTER, Hand-List (1907), 17 
(error). 
Tin-ga6, Ticao; ba-na-ti-ran, Calayan; ba-hu-goc’, Batan. 
Batan (McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Cebu (Everett, 
Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Leyte (Everett) ; Luzon (Meyen, Everett, Steere 
Ezp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead) ; Masbate (McGregor) ; Mindanao (Platen, 
Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (McGregor) ; Negros (Keay); Panay (Bourns & Worces- 
ter) ; Samar (Bourns € Worcester) ; Siquijor (Bourns € Worcester) ; Ticao (Mc- 
Gregor). 
Adult (sexes alike).—Above olive-brown ; below bluish slate-gray, most 
intense on breast, lighter on chin, throat, and middle of abdomen; flanks 
and thighs dull olive-brown; under tail-coverts ruddy brown. Iris red; 
