Birds of Celebes: Rallidae. 695 



Hypotaenidia philippensis (1) Bp., 0. R. 1856, XLIII, 599, Nr. 333; (2) Sclil., Mus. P.-B., 

 Ram, 1865, 23; (3) Gld., HB. B. Austr. 1865, H, 334; (4) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, 

 Vm, 95; (5) Pelz., B)is 1873, 41; (6) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VIE, 

 677; (7) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1877, 688, 702; (8) Rosenb., Malay. Ai-cliip. 1878, 

 278; (9) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 142; (10) Sclat., Ibis 1880, 312; (11) Salvad., Orn. 

 Pap. 1882, ni, 261; (12) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 139; (13) Guillem., P. Z. S. 

 1885, 560; (14) W. Bias., Zt. ges. Orn. 1886, 162; (15) Ramsay, Tab. List 1888, 

 21; (16) North, Nests & Eggs Austr. B. 1889, 328; (17) Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 

 1889, 28; (18) Salvad., Agg. Orn. Pap. 1891, 196; (19) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. 

 Dresd. 1895, Mai, Nr. 8, p. 18; (20) Grant, Ibis 1895, 471; (21) Hart., Nov. Zool. 

 1896, 164. 



c. Rallus philippinensis (1) Rosenb., Zool. Garten 1881, 167. 



(■/. Hypotaenidia pMlippinensis (1) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1894, XXHI, 39. 



'■Werries imbene" or "Weris iembene", Minabassa, Guillemard 13, Nat. Coll. 



'•Bulo-ito", general name for Rails [Gorontalo?], Rosenb. 8. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Salvad. iJ, Sharpe d 1. 



Figures and descriptions. Gould h I, 3; Buller a IT, a VII; Potts V; Briiggemann a 4; 

 Pinsch & Hartlaub b 2; Hartlaub b 6; Schlegel 2; Salvadori 11; North 16 

 (egg); Sharpe d 1. 



Adult. Above tawny-olive, the hind neck, back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts and tail 

 marked with transverse spots of wliite, more or less surrounded with black; rump clear 

 of sjjots; remiges banded with tawny-olive and dusky, the two outermost, like some 

 of the tertiaries, barred with white; feathers of head above dark brown, with tawny olive 

 edgings; a broad facial stripe through lores, orbital and auricular region 

 on to sides of cervix chestnut; above this a stripe of hghtgrey; malar region 

 light grey, becoming more plumbeous on the jugulum, and whitish on chin and 

 upper throat; remaining under-parts, including under wing-coverts, dusky, barred 

 with white, ilanks and under tail-coverts with cinnamon-buff, which is almost uniform 

 on crissum, thighs and under tail-coverts; "iris Indian-red; bill warm brown; legs, 

 feet, claws light greyish brown" — Everett 7 (ad. Manado: v. Musschenbroek — 

 C 5261). 



Female. Resembles the male. A female in the Sarasin Collection (Tomohon, 9. III. 94) 

 has the mantle and back much blacker than the specimen of unknowii sex described. 



Immature. Like the adult, the mantle and back but faintly spotted with white, the colour 

 being nearly lost in the tawny-olive borders of the feathers, the spots on the wing- 

 coverts rounder and often tawny; the feathers of throat and jugulum cinnamon-buff 

 with grey bases; the chestnut facial stripe almost absent (Q, Kema, 28. Aug. 1893: 

 P.&F. Sarasin). 



Dr. Sharpe rightly remarks that profuse white spotting seems to be a sign of 

 age, especially, we should think, when the spots tend to widen into transverse bars. 



Measurements. Wing (8 adults, N. Celebes) 138 — 147 mm; tail c. 60; tarsus 41—45; cuhnen 

 from supraloral feathers 24 — 29. 



Chick. "Covered with sooty black down of silky texture, but without any gloss; bill greyish 

 white; legs blackish brown, darker behind" (Buller a VII). 



Eggs. 4 to 6 ; creamy-white, blotched and spotted, especially about the larger end, with irregular 

 blood-red markings, a few nearly obsolete subjacent spots of faded Ulac: c. 36.7 X 

 28 mm (North 16 — Australia; see also: Gould 3, Buller a VII, Finsch & Hartl. 

 b 2; Nehrkorn, J. f. 0. 1879, 408). 



