RAIL. 383 



round the neck a broad collar of white; plumage in general barred 

 brown and ferruginous ; belly white ; sides brown, banded with 

 ferruginous ash-colour; the first quill white on the outer edge. 

 Inhabits Possega, in Hungary. 



27.— FASCIATED RAIL. 



Rail us fasciatus, Lin. Trans, xiii. 328. 



THIS is chestnut above ; breast and throat ferruginous ; abdomen 

 transversely barred with black and white ; quills dark brown, with 

 some white bars; bill bluish black; feet and irides red. 

 Inhabits Sumatra. — Raffles. 



