Order GIULL^.] 



[Fam. RALLIDvE. 



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EALLUS PHILIPPENSIS. 



(STEIPED RAIL.) 



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Ballus pMUppensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 263 (1766). 

 Bale raye des Philippines, Buff. PL Enl. 774 (1784). 



Bail, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 231 (1785). 

 Ballus assimilis. Gray, App. Dieff. Trav. ii., App. p. 197 (1843). 

 Ballus pectoralis, Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 76 (1848, nee Less.). 

 Ballus forsteri, Hartl. Arch. f. Naturg. 1852, p. 136. 

 Ilypotcenidia philippensis, Bonap. C. R. xliii. p. 599 (1856). 



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Ballus (Eulabeornis) pJiilippensis, Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 28. 

 Ballus pieties, Potts, Trans. N.-Z. Inst. iv. p. 202 (1871). 



Native names. 

 Patatai, Popotai, Mohotatai, Moho-patatai, Moho-pereru 



Ad. supra brunneus^ interscapulio saturatiore, plumis omnibus late olivaceo-fulvo lavatis et marginatis, 



plerisquc albo maculatis aut interrupte transfasciatis_, uropygio tantum unieolori, supracaudalibus minus 

 albo notatis : pileo summo olivascenti-brunneo^ unicolori : striga superciliari angusta antice albida^ postice 

 cinerea : striga altera a basi maxillae per oculum ducta ad coUum laterale conjuncta, sordide castanea, tor- 

 quem coUarem distinctam vix formante : tectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus et eodem modo albo nota- 

 tis, majoribus extus fulvo, intus castaneo conspicue maculatis : ala spuria remigibusque brunneis castaneo 

 transfasciatis, primariis extus fulvescente notatis ct albo anguste transversim lineatis : Cauda bnmne^ 

 olivascente lavata : mento albo : genis et gutture toto cinereis^ parte inferiore pauUo olivascente lavata : 

 corpore reliquo subtus cinerascenti-brunneo, fulvo aut albido crebre transfasciato : torque pectorali 

 pallide ferruginea_, plus minusve distinct^ : hypocliondriis et subcaudalibus nigricantibus albo distincte 

 fasciatis et fulvescente terminatis : abdomine imo fulvescenti-albo : rostro flavicanti-brunneo^ ad basin 

 rufescente : pedibus pallide brunneis : iride rufescenti-brunne^. 



Adult, Crown of the head and all the upper surface brownish olive ; the feathers of the back and the inner 

 scapulars broadly centred with brownish black ; the feathers of the hind neck and upper part of the 

 back, as well as the upper wing-coverts, marked on both webs with tAvo spots of white, surrounded more 

 or less distinctly with blackish brown j streak over the eyes, chin, and throat greyish white, deepening 

 into dark grey on the sides of the head and on the fore neck j a band of chestnut-red, commencing at 

 the base of the upper mandible, passes through the eyes and down the neck, uniting on the nape in a 

 broad patch of the same colour varied with brown ; breast and sides of the body brownish black, crossed 

 by numerous narrow well-defined bars of white, tinged more or less with fulvous, and tipped with olive- 

 grey; on the sides and flanks the ground-colour is darker, and the bars are further apart; across the 

 breast a broad zone of reddish buff; abdomen^ thighs, and vent buffy white; under tail-coverts blacky 







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