THE BLUE-BREASTED BANDED RAIL. 339 
size_, the wing barely 3 inches in lengthy T. maculosa is of large size^ the 
wing, even in the smallest male, not being less than 3*3 in length., The 
latter species may further be distinguished by the presence of large roundish 
black spots on the sides of the breast and body. 
Order XIII. GERANOMORPH^. 
Suborder FULICARI^. 
Family RALLID^E. 
Subfamily EALLINiE. 
Genus HYPOT^NIDIA, Reich. 
692. HYPOT^NIDIA STEIATA. 
THE BLUE-BREASTED BANDED EAIL. 
Rallus striatus, Linn. St/st. Nat. i. p. 262 ; Jerd. B. Ind,\\. p. 726. Hypotsenidia 
striata, Wold. Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 95 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 605 ; 
Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 336 ; Wald. Ibis, 1874, p. 146 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 161 ; 
Hume, S. F. iii. p. 189; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 349 ; Wardlaw Bamsag, Ibis, 
1877, p. 471 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 165 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 488 ; Tioeedd. 
P. Z. S. 1877, p. 768 ; Hwne 8f Bav. 8. F. vi. p. 468 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. 
p. 692 ; Legge, Birds Ceglon, p. 775 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 113 ; Bingha^n, 8. F. 
ix. p. 197 ; Hume ^ Marsh. Game Birds, ii. p. 245^ pi. ; Oates, 8. F. x. p. 242 ; 
Kelham, Ibis, 1882, p. 189. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead^ crown, nape and the upper 
side of the neck chestnut^ pure in old birds, variegated with brown in 
younger ones ; the upper plumage, wing-coverts and tertiaries blackish 
brown, each feather broadly edged with olive-brown and barred with white; 
primaries_, secondaries and tail dark brown, barred with white on both webs ; 
chin and throat dull white ; lores, cheeks^ ear-coverts^ sides of the neck^ 
fore neck and breast bluish grey with a rufous tinge ; sides of the abdomen 
and of the body, vent, under tail- coverts and under wing-coverts dark 
brown barred with white ; centre of the abdomen dull white. 
Basal half of bill rose-pink, anterior half horn-colour j iris red ; legs 
and toes deep olive-brown; claws pale brown. 
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