Order RALLIFORMES. 
No. 54. 
Family RALLID^E. 
EULABEORNIS TRICOLOR ROBINSONI. 
RED-NECKED RAIL. 
(Plate 49.)* 
Eulabeornis tricolor robinsoni, subsp. n., Queensland. 
Rallina tricolor (not Gray) Gould, P.Z.S., p. 218 (1866) ; id., B. Austr. Suppl., PI. 78 (1869) ; 
Ramsay, P.Z.S., p. 603 (1875); id., P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 196 (1876) ; Ramsay, Tab. 
List Austr. B.,p. 21 (1888) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 330 (1889) ; Sharpe, 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXIII., p. 79 (1894) ; Robinson and Laverock, Ibis., p. 650 
(1900) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 742 (1901) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., 
p. 76 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 12 (1908). 
Eulaheornis tricolor Mathews, Birds Austr., p. 184 (1911) (cancelled). 
Distribution. North Queensland. 
Adult male. Head, hind-neck, mantle, and entire breast bright chestnut, somewhat paler 
on the sides of the face, and whitish on the chin ; back and scapulars olive-brown ; 
wings, rump, upper tail-coverts and tail dark brown ; bastard-wing brown, with 
whitish spots on the inner webs, and sometimes on the outer webs also ; primary- 
coverts uniform brown ; primary and secondary quiUs brown, with white bars on the 
inner webs and faint traces of bars on the outer webs ; abdomen, lower flanks, 
vent, and under tail-coverts sooty-black with rufous cross-bars, paler and inclining 
to white on the middle of the abdomen ; under wing-coverts and axillaries black, 
barred with white Bill, green ; iris red; feet slaty-green ” (E. Olive). Total 
length, 276 mm. ; culmen, 34 ; wing, 148 ; tail, 70 ; tarsus, 47. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Nestling. “ The young, on leaving the egg, are covered with a sooty-black down, having 
a dark, plumbeous tinge on the under-surface.” 
Immature. “The young at about flve months old have the upper-surface of a dull, dark 
brown tinged with olive, and washed with light rufous-brown on the back of the neck ; 
the under -surface is of a duller and more plumbeous-brown, with a faint wash of 
rufous-brown on the chest and under tail-coverts, which latter have two pale rufous 
bars on each feather ; the under-surface of the wings blackish, dull brown, a band of 
white spots near the base, and a similar band about the middle of the quill-feathers ; 
biU, olive-brown ; legs greenish-olive ; iris reddish-brown. Total length, 7 inches ; 
wing, 3.6 ; tail, 1.5 ; tarsus, 2 in. ; bill, 9 in. ” (Ramsay, P.Z.S., p. 604 (1875)). 
* The Plate is lettered EalUna tricolor. 
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