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57. HYPOT/ENIDIA STRIATA (Linnaeus). 

 BLUE-BREASTED RAIL, 



Rallus striatus LINN^US, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 262. 



Hypotcenidia striata SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 33; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 95; GATES, Cat. Bird's Eggs (1901), 1, 111; MCGREGOR 

 and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 15. 



Tic-ling, general name for rails. 



Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Cebu (Everett) ; Guimaras (Steere Exp.) ; 

 Leyte (Everett) ; Luzon (Cuming, McGregor, Gevers) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (McGregor, Porter)-, Negros 

 (Steere Exp., Keay) ; Palawan (Celestino, White) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns 

 & Worcester)-, Samar (Steere Exp.) ; 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. HYPOT/ENIDIA PHILIPPENSIS (Linn^us). 

 PECTORAL RAIL. 



Rallus philippensis LINN^US, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 ( 1766) , 1 , 263. 

 Hypotcenidia, philippinensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894'), 23, 39; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 96; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 113; 



MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 16. 



Batan (Edmonds)-, Luzon (Everett, Whitehead, McGregor). Pacific Islands, 

 Malay Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand. 



"Adult raaZe. General color above ochraceous-brown, all the feathers 

 black, with ochraceous edgings, and spangled with white spots on the 



