168 HALLIDJE. 



Hume, S. F. i, p. 440 ; Hume $ Oaf eg, S. F. iii, p. 188 ; Hume fy 



Bourd. S. F. iv, p. 405 ; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 465 ; uec Hull us 



zeylanicus, Gm. 



Porzana superciliaris, Blyth, Cat. p. 339. 

 Porzana zeylanica, apud Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxi, p. 353 ; id. Ibis, 



1867, pp. 171, 309 ; nee Gm. 



Porzana amauroptera, Blyth, Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 725. 

 Rallina euryzonoides, apud Tu-eeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 767 (partim); 



Hume, Cat. no. 912; Leyge, Birds Ceyl. p. 772 ; Hume fy Marsh. 



dnvttft Ti ii r 9517 -r>l finfaa 7? ff ii -i-v .^/lO- Tlniiifl&nrt .7iJI' 



, \^uv. iiu. i^ , j^eyye, j)trua \^cyi. p. / i& , Ji//tc 9 .IUM* 



_ ^. ii, p. 237, pi. ; Ort^s, ^. B. ii, p. 340 ; Davidson, Jour 

 Bom. N. H. Soc. ix, p. 489 ; nee Lafresn. 

 Rallina telmatophila, Hume, S. F. vii, pp. 142, 451. 

 liallina superciliaris, Sharpe, Cat. . M. xxiii. p. 76. 



Fig. 35. Head of B. superciliaris. \. 



Coloration. Head and neck all round, with upper breast, chestnut ; 

 chin and throat pale rufous to white ; upper parts from the neck 

 dark brownish olive ; quills dark brown; lower parts from breast, 

 including wing-lining and lower tail-coverts, barred across with 

 white and dusky black ; the dusky bars becoming narrow 7 and 

 partly disappearing in the middle. 



Old females appear to resemble the male, but this is not quite 

 certain; generally in females the chestnut is confined to the fore- 

 head, sides of face, fore neck, and breast, the crown and nape 

 being brownish olive like the back. Young birds have the rufous 

 on the head, neck, and breast entirely replaced by brown ; the 

 inner webs of the quills are barred with white, and there are 

 occasionally a few white bars with dusky edges on the upper 

 wing-coverts. 



Base of upper mandible, and greater portion of the lower, green ; 

 remainder of the bill dark brown ; irides blood-red ; legs black 

 (Oates). Iris mottled closely on the exterior portion with red- 

 brown on an olive ground; legs and feet plumbeous (Leyye). 



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



Distribution. A winter visitor to Ceylon, arriving about the end 

 of October and leaving about February. Isolated specimens have 

 been obtained in the North-west Provinces and Oudh, JN"epal, 

 Sikhim, Bengal, Orissa, Gumsiir, Cauara, and Travancore, also at 

 Thayet Myo in Pegu, at Malacca, and Singapore ; but. except in 

 Ceylon, the occurrence of this species appears to be occasional, and 

 its summer quarters and breeding-haunts are unknown. The 

 Philippine species, the true 11. euryzonoidcs, is regarded by 

 Dr. Sharpe as distinct. 



Habits, <$fc. The Banded Crake arrives on the west coast of 



