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with white, and by its small size. H. celebensis is uniform olivaceous above, and 
entirely barred with black and white below, having a long rictal stripe of white. 
H. philippensis is a rather common species in N. Celebes. Its habits are said 
by Gould and Buller to be very similar to those of the Landrail (Crew pratensis) 
of Europe. It rarely flies, but runs with great activity, keeps itself as much 
concealed as possible, feeds on grasses, seeds, insects, swallowing sand to aid 
its digestion. In captivity. Sir W. Buller found it seemed to prefer fresh meat 
minced to any other diet. 
* 298. HYPOTAENIDIA CELEBENSIS (Q. G.). 
Celebesian Barred Kail. 
a. Rallus celebensis (I) Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Astrol. Zool. 1830, I, 250, pi. 24, fig. 2; 
’ (2) Gray, List Grallae Br. Mus. 1844, 116; (3) Wallace, P. Z. S. 1862, 345; 
(4) Briigg., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 92; (5) Rosenb., Zool. Garten 1881, 167. 
b. Eulabeornis celebensis (1) Gray, Gen. B. Ill, 595 (1846); (2) id., HL. 1871, HI, 57, 
Nr. 1 0376. 
Hypotaenidia celebensis (1) Bp., Oompt. Rend. 1856, XLEH, 599, Nr. 329; (2) SchL, Mus. 
P.-B., Ralb, 1865, 22 (nec syn.); (3J Wald., Tr. Z. 8. 1872, Vm, 95; (4) Pelz.. 
Ibis 1873, 41, 43; (5) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VII, 677, 976; (6) 
Rosenb., Malay. Arcbip. 1878, 278; (7) Sclat., Ibis 1880, 309; (8) Salvad., Om. 
Pap. 1882, ni, 260; (9) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 139; (10) Guillem., P. Z. 8. 1885, 
560; (11) W. Bias., Z. ges. Om. 1886, 160; (12) Sharpe, Notes Leyd. Mus. 1893, 
268; (13) id.. Cat. B. 1894, XXIII, 45, 230; (14) M. &Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 
1895, Mai, Nr. 8, p. 17; (15) Andrews, Nov. Zool. 1896, 267 — 271; (16) Hart., 
ib. 1897, 166. 
“Weris palingan”, Minabassa, Nat. Coll. 
Figure and descriptions. Quoy & Gaimard a 7; W. Blasius 77; Sharpe 13. 
Adult. Above, burnt umber brown, washed with slate-grey on forehead and crown; a broad 
stripe from lores to sides of nape black; below this a stripe of white from 
rictus to sides of neck; malar region black; entire under-parts black, 
narrowly barred with white, the terminal fringes of the under tail-coverts pale cinna- 
mon; the black and white barring of the sides of the breast continued on to some 
of the inner lesser and middle upper wing-coverts; remiges below dusky brown, 
obscurely notched on the inner webs with dull rufous; “iris blood-red, bill black, 
feet grey-brown” — Platen in Mus. Berlepsch (ad., near Manado, Aug. Sept. 1892. 
Nat. Coll. — C 10942). 
In three other adult specimens — one a female, mother of the young described 
l 3 elow — the throat and cheeks are almost entirely black, the feathers crossed only 
with narrow white terminal edges. 
Young. Above as in the adult; the plumage below softer, dusky, barred with white, more 
huffy on chest, abdomen and under tail-coverts; throat whitish, mottled, rather than 
barred, with dusky; inner webs of remiges for the most part rufous, vermiculated with 
dusky; bill much shorter (juv., near Manado, Aug. — Sept. 1892: Nat. Coll. C 10943). 
A second young one (moulting) has the cheeks and lower throat dusky black; 
upper surface much darker (juv., near Tondano, Aug. — Sept. 92, Nat. Coll. — 0 10956). 
Variation. There is considerable individual colour -variation in this species, irrespective of 
Meyer *6 Wigles wortli, Birds of Celebes (Nov. 27*1', 1S97). S8 
