THE MALAY BANDED liAIL. 
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lower green^ remainder of the bill dark brown ; eyelids grey ; legs black ; 
claws dark horn-colour. 
Length about 10 inches_, tail 2'2j wing 5*5^ tarsus 176, bill from 
gape 1"3. 
A live specimen of this Rail was captured by Colonel Horace Browne 
in the verandah of his house at Thayetmyo some years ago. The bird 
reached me alive the same day ; and this is the only instance I know of the 
occurrence of this species in British Burmah. 
It is everywhere rare and migratory, and it seems to have a great 
fondness for taking refuge in buildings. Little is known regarding the 
movements of this bird. It arrives in Ceylon in October in considerable 
quantities and it comes to that island in an exhausted condition_, so that we 
may presume it has travelled a long distance. It remains in Ceylon till 
February. The occurrence of this Rail has been recorded from various 
widely separated localities in India. It is known to occur with certainty 
in various islands of the Philippine group ; and Count Salvadori gives 
Java, Malacca and Singapore as localities whence specimens have been 
obtained. 
Nothing is known about the nidification of this Rail, and very little 
about its habits. 
694. RALLINA FASCIATA. 
THE MALAY BANDED RAIL. 
Rallus fasciatus, Haji. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 328. Rallina fasciata, Salvad. 
Ucc. Born. p. 337 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 162 ; id. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 231 ; 
Hume, S. F. ill. p. 188 ; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 467 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 113 ; 
Hume Sf Marsh. Game Birds, ii, p. 235, pL 
Description. — The whole head, neck all round and breast deep chestnut, 
rather paler on the chin and throat ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts and 
tail ruddy brown ; scapulars and tertiaries ruddy brown, with a few 
obsolete ferruginous bars near the tips of some of the feathers ; lesser 
wing- coverts ruddy brown, with a ferruginous spot in the centre of each 
feather ; the remaining coverts and all the quills brown, with rufou^-white 
bars on both webs ; abdomen, vent, sides of the body, under wing-coverts, 
axillaries and under tail-coverts broadly barred with black and white, the 
latter part tinged with ferruginous. Mr. Hume states that the sexes are 
alike. 
Legs, feet and bare portion of tibia coral-red ; bill black, dark horny 
blue or plumbeous blue; irides dull red, cinnabar-red or red-brown; 
orbital skin and gape bright vermilion. {Davison.) 
