THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 41 



Our specimen from Pulau Sireh, near Puket, which is quite 

 immature, was unfortunately wrongly identified ; it belongs to this 

 species. 



Little is known of the true breeding range : most of the speci- 

 mens in our possession have been obtained either at sea or on small 

 islands or on the tops of high mountains, evidently on passage. It 

 can at once be distinguished from R. fasciata by its greenish black, 

 not crimson, legs, and by the much smaller bill. 



38. Rallina fasciata (Raffles). 



Rallus fasciatus, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1822, p. 328 



(Sumatra). 

 llallina fasciata, 0. ii, p. 341 (Tavoy) ; D., p. 78 (Patani) ; H., 



p. 137 (Terutau). 



Both this species and the following are highly migratory 

 birds, though whether merely wathin local limits, or from breeding 

 to winter quarters, is not known with certainty. 



At the end of October, 1909, after a period of heavy wind 

 and rain, this bird appeared in very large numbers near Alor Star, 

 Kedah, and was trapped in quantity by the local Malays. 

 Limnobaenus paykulli (Ljung). 



Rdlus paykulli, Ljung, Sv. Vet, Akad. Handl., 1813, p. 258, Taf. v, 



(Batavia). 

 Rallina mandarina, Swinh., Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) v, 1870, 



p. 173 (Canton). 



This species is sparsely distributed during winter in Java, 

 Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, and appears to be a breeding bird 

 in E. Siberia and China. It is easily confused with immature 

 specimens of Rallina super ciliar is from which it differs in being of 

 a darker colour above, and in having the middle toe and claw 

 distinctly longer than the tarsus. 



The bill is shorter, and in the specimens before us the barring 

 on tl^ under surface is not continuous across the centre of the belly. 



Ii Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



56, No. 2, 1916. (first part). 



J. Robinson, Joiirn. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



K' Kloss, Ibis, 1918. (second part). 



L. Robinson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, IWI. I. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 1920. 



iii, 1919. (third part). 



VOL. V, NO. 1, 1921. 



