AMAURORNIS. 70 



"Adult male. Similar to L. 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 Eallina 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 AMAUROKNIS 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. 



a 1 . Chin, throat, and breast slate-gray olivacea (p. 75) 



a 2 . Chin, throat, and breast pure white phoenicura (p. 76) 



67. AMAURORNIS OLIVACEA (Meyen). 

 PHILIPPINE WATERHEN. 



Gallinula olivacea MEYEN, Nova Acta C. L-C. Acad. Nat. Cur. (1834), 16, 



Suppl. 1, 109, pi. 20. 

 Amaurornis olivacea WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 231, pi. 33, fig. 



1; SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 153; Hand-List (1899), 



1, 106; GRAXT and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 247 (eggs) ; GATES, Cat. 



Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 120. 

 Amauronis olivacea MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1907), 17 



( error ) . 



Tin-gad, Ticao; ba-na-ti-ran, Calayan; ba-hu-goc f , Batan. 



Batan (McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor) ; Cebu (Everett, 

 Bourns & Worcester, McGregor} ; Leyte (Everett) ; Luzon (Meyen, Everett, Steere 

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

 Goodfelloio) ; 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; 



