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Bantayan (McGregor) ; Bongao (Everett) ; Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; Ca- 

 miguin N. (McGregor); Catanduanes ( Whitehead) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns & 

 Worcester, McGregor) ; Diriagat (Everett) ; Leyte (Everett) ; Luzon (Cuming, 

 Meyer, Everett, Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque (Steere 

 Exp.) Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Steere Exp., Bourns 

 & Worcester, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Negros 

 (Everett, Keay) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns cC- Worcester) ; Romblon (Bourns 

 d Worcester, McGregor] ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester] ; Sibuyan 

 (McGregor) ; Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Ticao (McGregor) ; Verde 

 (McGregor). 



Adult (sexes afike). Above olive-brown with a few, obscure, black 

 lines on forehead ; lores and eircumocular area black, continued as a wide 

 black band behind eye to side of nape; below this a wide white band 

 from gape to neck, slightly washed with chestnut at its end; chin gray; 

 throat and lower part of face black ; lower throat and rest of lower parts 

 black profusely banded with white; vent and under tail-coverts washed 

 with clay-brown; a wide band of chestnut across breast; under wing- 

 coverts and axillars barred with black and white like the breast. Iris 

 red; bill, legs, and nails brown. Three males: Length, 317 to 330; 

 wing, 151 to 155; tail, 54 to 65; exposed culmen, 41 to 43; tarsus, 52 

 to 53; middle toe with claw, 52, 55. Two females: Length, 305, 317; 

 wing, 142, 144; tail, 51, 60; exposed culmen, 39, 41; tarsus, 51, 52; 

 middle toe with claw, 51, 52. 



Young. Resembles the adult but has more white on the chin; band 

 across breast wider and olive-brown; vent and under tail-coverts barred 

 with reddish brown. 



"H. torquata usually deposits four eggs, more rarely three. The 

 ground-color of the egg is creamy white, sparingly marked with spots 

 and a few blotches of brown varying from dark chocolate to reddish, 

 and with more numerous spots and blotches of pale lilac ; all the markings 

 more numerous at the larger end. Ten eggs average 38 by 28.4." 

 . (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



The Philippine rail is the most abundant species of its family with 

 the possible exception of Poliolimnas cinereus; both species are often 

 taken in snares. 



Genus RALLINA Eeichenbach, 1849. 



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The species of this genus are of small size with short stout bills; 

 middle toe with claw shorter than tarsus ; head, neck, and chest chestnut ; 

 sides and abdomen barred with white. 



Species. 



a 1 . Wing-coverts broadly barred with white or buffy-white fasciata (p. 70) 



a*. Wing-coverts uniform or with few irregular white bars.... eurizonoides (p. 70) 



