640 



Mr. Brooks in Cawnpore. It has also been got near Cuttack and in Mainpuri 

 near Lucknow. About Calcutta, and also near Madras, it has also been 

 obtained, but all these were apparently stragglers during severe winter. 



1326. Rallina fasciata, Raffl., Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 328; 

 Salvad., Ucc.Born. p. 337 ; Wald. in Blyth's B. Burm. p. 162 ; id., Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. ix. p. 231 ; Hume> Sir. F. iii. p. 188; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. 

 p. 467 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 113; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 235, 

 pi. ; Oates t B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 341. The MALAY BANDED RAIL. 



Whole head, neck all round and breast deep chestnut, rather paler on the 

 chin and throat ; back, rump, upper tail coverts and tail ruddy brown ; scapu- 

 lars and tertiaries ruddy brown, with a few obsolete ferruginous bars near the 

 tips of some of the feathers ; lesser wing coverts ruddy brown, with a ferru- 

 ginous spot in the centre of each feather, the remaining coverts and all the 

 quills brown, with rufous white bars on both webs ; abdomen, vent, sides of the 

 body, under wing coverts, axillaries, and under wing coverts broadly barred 

 with black and white, the latter part tinged with ferruginous ; legs, feet and 

 bare portion of tibia coral red ; bill black, dark horny blue or plumbeous 

 blue ; irides dull red, cinnabar red or red brown ; orbital skin and gape 

 bright vermilion. (Davison.) 



Length. 10 inches; tail 2-3 ; wing 5'! ; tarsus 1-7 ; bill from gape I. 



Hab. Tenasserim, about Amherst and Tavoy. Extends down the Malay 

 Peninsula, and in the Islands of Sumatra, Java and Borneo. Mr. Davison 

 found it frequenting rice fields surrounded by low brushwood. 



1327. Rallina Canning! (Tytler), Hume, Str. F. \. p. 86; ii. 



p. 500; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 241, pi. The ANDAMANESE 

 BANDED CRAKE. 



Head, neck, breast, wings and tail dark maroon ; primaries and seconda- 

 ries olivaceous brown on the outer webs, but strongly tinged with rufous; inner 

 webs black or blackish brown, with numerous moderately narrow, oblique, 

 transverse rufous white bars, 3 on the 1st primary, 4 on the next, and 5 or 6 

 on the others ; abdomen and flanks, also the sides of the body, black, trans- 

 versely banded with white ; edges of the wing coverts and quills dusky ; 

 under tail coverts maroon. Legs and feet olive green; bill delicate pale 

 chrysoprase green ; irides red, 



Length. 13 to 14-5 inches; wing 5-95 to 6-4; tail 3*25 to 3'6 ; tarsus 

 2'05 to 2-3 ; bill at front ri to i - 22. 



Hab. The Andamans, to which Island it is confined, as far as present 

 knowledge extends. Hume says it is chiefly a woodland Rail, haunting the 

 neighborhood of streams and pools, bordered by dense forests. According 

 to Capt. Wimberley (Hume), it is extremely shy, does not take wing unless 



