EALLINA EUKYZONOIDES. 
(BROWN’S RAIL*.) 
Gallinula eurizonoides , Lafresn. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 368. 
Porzana ceylonica , Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 285 (1849, nec Gm.) ; Layard, Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 267 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 725 (1864); Hume, Str. 
Feath. 1873, p. 440, et 1875, p. 188 ; Bourdillon & Hume, ibid. 1876, p. 405 ; Hume, 
ibid. 1878, vii. p. 465. 
Corethrura zeylanica (Brown), apud Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 135 (1852). 
Porzana zeylanica, Blyth, Ibis, 1867. pp. 171, 309 [nee Gm.). 
Eallina euryzonoides (Lafr.), Gray, Hand-1. B. iii. p. 58 (1871); Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, 
p. 767 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1879 (List Ind. Birds), p. 113. 
Eallina ceylonica , Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 476 (nec Gm.). 
The Bail, Brown, Illustr. pi. 37; The Ceylon Bail , Kelaart, l. c. ; The Banded Bail, Jerdon; 
The Chestnut-headed Bail, The Ferruginous-breasted Bail, of some. Nordewind, Dutch 
in Ceylon (Layard) ; Neer kuruvi, Tamils (MacVicar). 
Adult male and female. Length 9-5 to 10‘0 inches ; wing 4-7 to 5-0 ; tail 2-2 ; tarsus 1’6 to 1'75 ; middle toe and 
claw 1 '45 to 1-55 ; hind toe and claw O’ 55 ; bill to gape l - 2 to 1-25. 
Iris mottled closely on the exterior portion with red-brown on an olive ground (after death the red-brown intensifies 
and spreads over the iris) ; bill dark brown, sides of lower mandible green ; legs and feet plumbeous or plumbeous 
brown. 
Male. Head, upper part of hind neck, its sides, fore neck, and chest fine ferruginous chestnut, enclosing a white 
chin and throat of more or less extent; lower part of hind neck, upper surface, and wings uniform brownish 
olive, brown on the inner webs of the quills, which are barred at the margin, near the base, with white ; wing- 
coverts faintly tinged with rusty brown ; breast, lower parts, under tail-coverts, thighs, and under wing-coverts 
blackish brown, broadly banded with white, which overcomes the ground-colour on the abdomen, this part being, 
in some, almost white. Some specimens have the occiput tinged with brown. 
Female. Has the hind neck, occiput, and hind part of the crown brown, like the back ; the forehead and front of 
crown chestnut-red, the colour passing over the eye and covering the face and ear-eoverts, whence it passes 
over the sides of the neck to the chest ; the lores are shaded with brown ; the extent of the white on the throat 
is, I think, as a rule, greater in this sex than in the other. The barring of the underparts presents no constant 
difference to that in the male. 
Young (?). Birds which I conclude are immature have the face and ear-coverts olive-brown, tinged with chestnut-red, 
the sides of the neck brown, and only the forehead chestnut ; the red of the chest is of small extent and is 
sullied with brown. 
Ohs. Mr. Hume has shown, in his remarks on this species in ‘ Stray Feathers,’ that Blyth’s species, R. amauroptera , 
“ distinguished by having less rufous on the nape,” is only the female of this bird. Blyth described his species 
from INorthern-Indian specimens, and arrived at the conclusion that it constituted a race from that part of the 
country. Some examples of the present Bail are said to have the smaller scapulars banded with white, like the 
allied species R. fasciata, to be presently noticed ; but I have seen no Ceylonese skins exhibiting the slightest 
trace of this character. 
* There are two other species of this little group, more banded than the present ; I therefore discard the usual title 
“ Banded Bail ” and adopt the more suitable one, after its first describer, Brown. 
