Order RALLIFORMES Family RALLIDJS. 
No. 50. 
RALLUS PECTORALIS PEGTORALIS. 
SLATE-BREASTED RAIL. 
(Plate 46.)* 
Rallus pectoealis Temminck, PI. Col., Vol. V., 88th liv., page opp. PI. 523 (1831), 
New South Wales. 
Rallus pectoralis Temminck, PI. Col, Vol. V., 88th liv., page opp. PI. 523 (1831) ; 
Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool., p. 276 (1851). 
Rallus hrachipus Swainson, An. in Menag., p. 336 (1837) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 336 
(1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 193 (1876) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, 
p. 329 (1889). 
Rallus lewinii Swainson, An. in Menag., p. 336 (1837) ; Gould, B. Austr. VI., PI. 77 (1848). 
Lewinia lewini Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 120 (1855). 
Lewinia brachypus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XLIII., p. 599 (1856). 
Lewinia pectoralis, id., ib. 
Rallus brachypus Hugel,| Ibis, p. 393 (1875). 
Hypotoenidia {Lewinia) brachipus Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., II., p. 199 (1877). 
Hypotcenidia brachipus Campbell, Viet. Nat., IV., p. 186 (1888). 
Hypotcenidia brachypus Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXIII., p. 37 (1894) ; North, B. County 
Cumb., p. 108 (1898) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 739 (1901) ; Oates, 
Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 112 (1901) ; HaU, Key B. Austr., p. 76 (1906) ; 
Mathews, Handl. B. Austral, p. 12 (1908) ; Littler, Handb. B. Tasmania, p. 110 (1910). 
Eulabeornis brachipus Mathews, Birds Austr., p. 184 (1911) (cancelled). 
Distribution. South Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria ; Tasmania ; South 
Australia. \ \ 
Adult Male. General colour above black, all the feathers broadly margined with olive-brown 
including the mantle, back, upper tail-coverts, and tail ; scapulars black, barred with 
white ; lesser wing-coverts olive-brown ; median- and greater -coverts blackish, 
narrowly barred with white — ^these white bars are not always continuous across the 
feathers, but only represented by a short bar on each web ; bastard-wing, primary- 
coverts, quills, uniform dark brown, the long inner secondaries barred with white on 
* The Plate is lettered Hypotcenidia brachypus. 
^hat this bird came originally from the Auckland Islands, where Rallus mueUeri 
Rothschild has been found. Dr. von Hiigel says he bought it from the captain of a ship coming from the 
Auckland Islands, but this of course is not proof that it was captured there. 
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