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Ceyloa when the north wind sets in ; it is then in an exhausted 

 condition as if from a long flight, and often seeks shelter in 

 houses. After a few days all the birds leave for the hills, where 

 they frequent sedgy places near streams and paddy-fields ; they 

 are also found in drier ground. Nothing certain is known of the 

 nidification. 



1396. Rallina fasciata. The Malayan Banded Crake. 



Rallus fasciatus, Raffi. TV. Linn. Soc. xiii, p. 328 (1822). 



Porzana fasciata, Blyth, Cat. p. 285 ; Hume, S. F. ii, p. 483 ; iii, 



p. 188. 

 Rallina fasciata, Wald. in Blyth' s Birds Burm. p. 162 ; Hume Sf 



Dav. S. F. vi, p. 467 ; Hume, Cat. no. 912 bis ; Hume $ Marsh. 



Game B. ii, p. 235, pi. : Oates, B. B. ii, p. 341 ; Salcadori, Ann. 



Mm. Civ. Gen. (2) vii, p. 427 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 76. 



Coloration. Head and neck all round, with the breast, dull 

 chestnut, paler, sometimes whitish, on the chin and throat ; upper 

 parts from the neck rufous brown; primary and some of the 

 secondary wing-coverts with dark-edged white cross-bars; quills 

 dark brown, all except the tertiaries with imperfect white bars on 

 both webs ; abdomen barred black and white, the white bars 

 becoming rufous on the lower tail-coverts. 



In some skins, probably females, the black bars on the abdomen 

 are narrower and disappear more or less in the middle. Young 

 birds are brown, not chestnut, on the head, neck, and breast. 



Bill blackish, plumbeous, or greenish slaty ; gape, chin, and 

 orbital ring crimson ; irides brown to crimson ; legs and feet 

 coral-red ; claws horny blue (Davison). 



Length 9 ; tail 2 ; wing 5 ; tarsus 1'7 ; bill from gape 1. 



Distribution. Erom Karennee to Celebes and the Moluccas, 

 throughout the Malayan Peninsula and islands. Found by 

 Davison at Moulmein, Amherst, and Tavoy, and by Eea in 

 Karennee. 



Habits, fyc. Apparently a resident species, found in scrub and 

 brushwood on the borders of wet cultivation. Nidification not 

 known. 



1397. Rallina canning!. The Andamanese Banded Crake. 



Euryzona cauningi, Tytler, Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 119 ; Ball, J, A. S. B. 



xli, pt. 2, p. 288 ; id. S. F. i, p. 86 ; Hume, S. F.'ii, pp. 302, 500. 

 Rallina canningi, Hume, Cat. no. 912 ter ; Hume Sf Marsh. Game 



B. ii, p. 241, pi. ; Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 393. 

 Castanolimnas canning!, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. Club, vol. i, p. xxviii ; 



id. Ibis, 1893, p. 260 ; id. Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 80. 



Coloration. Head and neck all round, upper breast, and whole 

 upper plumage deep ruddy chestnut ; quills blackish brown 

 externally, margined with chestnut, all except the tertiaries with 

 rufous-white bars on the inner webs ; primaries more or less 

 distinctly barred with rufous on the outer webs also ; lower parts 



