161 



If vpotaenidia striata, Hume, N. # E. p. 605 ; Hume Sf Oates, S. F. 

 iii, p. 189; Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 349; Oates, S. F. v, p. 165 ; 

 Wardl.-Rams. Ibis, 1877, p. 471 ; Hume fy Dav. 8. F. vi, p. 468 ; 

 Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 692 ; Leyge, Birds Ceyl. p. 775 ; 

 Hume, Cat. no. 913 ; Hume $ Marsh. Game B. ii, p. 245, pi. ; iii, 

 p. 435, pi. ii (egg) ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 87 ; Butler, ibid. p. 432 ; 

 Davison, S. F. x, p. 415; Terry, ibid. p. 480; Oates, B. B. ii, 

 p. 339 ; id. in Hume's N. E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 399 ; Hume, S. F. xi, 

 p. 329 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 372 : id. Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. vi, 

 p. 141, pi. fig. 913 (egg) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 33. 



ana-kolij Tarn. ; Wade-koli, Tel. ; Yay-gyet, Burin. 



Fig. 33. Head of H. striata. }. 



Coloration. Crown, nape, and sides of neck chestnut, more or 

 less streaked with dark brown, that disappears in old birds ; 

 upper parts, including the wing and tail-feathers, dark brown with 

 narrow broken white cross-bars, forming spots rather than bars, 

 on the back, all the feathers except the quills with lighter olive- 

 brown edges ; chin and middle of throat white ; sides of head 

 below eyes, whole fore neck and breast ashy grey ; abdomen, 

 flanks, and under wing- and tail-coverts blackish, barred with 

 white. 



Females are rather duller, especially on the crown and nape ; 

 middle of abdomen sullied white. 



Young birds have the crown and nape brown, not rufous, and 

 no white cross-bars on the back. 



Colours of soft parts very variable : upper mandible and tip of 

 lower brown, basal portion of lower mandible and basal commissure 

 of. upper various shades of red ; irides light yellowish brown to 

 Indian-red : legs and feet olive-green to leaden grey or fleshy 

 grey. 



Length 10-5 ; tail T9 ; wing 475 ; tarsus 1-5 ; bill from gape T6. 



Distribution. Probably the greater part of India, Burma, and 

 Ceylon in marshy places ; a resident species. This Rail has 

 not been recorded from North-western India north of 20 N. lat. 

 except by Adams, who states that it is pretty common in the 

 Punjab. It has, however, not been obtained either there or in 

 the North-west Proviuces by later collectors. It is common in 

 Lower Bengal and in Pegu. Outside Indian limits it is found 

 in South-eastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the 

 Philippines and Celebes. 



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