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unspotted ; in others they have distinct buffy bars or spots corre- 

 sponding with the bars on the inner webs, more or less bordered 

 above and below with a blackish brown line ; in some specimens 

 the greater coverts are like the primaries, and exhibit similar 

 spots on their outer webs ; in others they are spotless, and in 

 others again the whole visible portion of them is precisely like 

 the lesser and median coverts. 



BESIDES the three species that we have figured as occurring with- 

 in our limits, one other species of Rallina was obtained, to our 

 knowledge, near Shillong at least two years ago. This specimen 

 is now in Major Godwin-Austen's possession, and he kindly pro- 

 mised to have it figured for this work, but owing to delays that 

 have unavoidably occurred it must appear, if at all, in the 

 3rd vol. 



In the Malay Peninsula occur, as already mentioned, R. super- 

 ciliaris and paykulli, the latter originally described from Java, 

 but re-described later as manderina, by Swinhoe from China ; 

 from Java we have also rubiginosa ; from Celebes minakasa, 

 very close indeed to the Banded-Crake ; and many other species 

 from the Archipelago and New Guinea, extending down to the 

 northern portions of Australia. India, however, is the western- 

 most country to which the genus extends, and its range lies 

 entirely east, north-east and south-east of our Empire. 



