Order RALLIFORMES 
No. 52. 
Family RALLIDJE. 
EULABEORNIS PHILIPPENSIS AUSTRALIS. 
BUFF-BANDED RAIL. 
(Plate 47.) * 
HYPOT.ffiNiDiA AUSTRALIS Pelzeln, Ibis., p. 42 (1873), Australia. 
Rallus philippensis (not Linne) King, Narr. Surv. Coasts Austr., II., p. 420 (1826), 
Rallus pectoralis (not Temminck) Gould, B. Austr., VI., PI. 76 (1848) ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. 
Centr. Austr., App., p. 54 (1849). 
Eulabeornis pectoralis (not Temminck) Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av., p. 96 (1854). 
Hypotoenidia philippensis Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 334 (1865); Ramsay, P.L.S,, N.S.W., 
II., p. 199 (1877) ; id., Tab. List Austr. B., p. 21 (1888) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., 
No. 12 (1889) ; id., B. County Cumb., p. 107 (1890) ; Keartland, B. Melbourne, 
p. 118 (1900). 
Hypotoenidia australis Pelzeln, Ibis, p. 42 (1873). 
Rallus {Hypotoenidia) philippensis Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 193 (1876). 
Eulabeornis philippensis Hartert, Katal. Vogel Mus. Senckenberg, p. 212 (1891). 
Hypotoenidia philippinensis (not Linne) Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXIII., p. 39 (1894) ; 
Robinson and Laverock, Ibis, p. 650 (1900) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., 
p. 740 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 113 (1901) ; Carter, Emu, III., 
p. 174 (1904) ; Compton, Emu, IV., p. 168 (1905) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 76 
(1906); Berney, Emu, VI., p. 108 (1907); Austin, Emu, VII., p. 76 (1907) ; Mathews, 
Handl. B. Austral., p. 12 (1908) ; Littler, Handb. B. Tasmania, p. 112 (1910). 
Distribution. Australia generally ; Tasmania. 
Adult male. Head reddish-brown, streaked with black ; superciliary streak white, merging 
into grey behind the eye ; lores and a broad line through the eye chestnut, like the 
hind-neck, to which it is joined ; sides of neck, lower hind-neck, and mantle blackish, 
barred and spotted with white ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail black, broadly 
edged with ochreous-brown, and a few margmal white spots on the upper tail- 
coverts ; scapulars dark-brown, margined with ochreous-brown, and spotted with 
white ; lesser wing-coverts ochreous-brown, mth black and white spots on the margins 
of the feathers ; bastard- wing dark-brown, barred with rufous and white ; primary- 
coverts and quills dark-brown, barred with rufous, some of the bars on the two outer 
primaries white, the innermost secondaries black, with rufous and white bars and 
fringed with ochreous-brown ; throat and fore-neck pale grey, darker on the latter ; 
upper breast and abdomen banded with narrow black and white bars, more broadly 
* The Plate is lettered Hypotoenidia philippinensis. 
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