6 
E. COLLETT. 
[NO. 6. 
Native name: Malau . It buries its eggs in crumbling, 
rotten, stumps of trees, or in places, where the earth is subter- 
raneously warmed by volcanic heat (a few such spots exist in 
Tongoa, where, probably, in the course of time, active volcanoes 
will appear). 
It often happens that many hens will bury their eggs at 
the same spot, and the natives can thus obtain several scores 
at a time. 
It lives on white ants, and various kind of insects and their 
larvae, which it finds in the decaying roots of trees. 
Hypotaenidia philippinensis, (Lin.) 1766. 
Rallus phi/ippensis, Lin. Syst. Nat. ed. XII. p. 263 (1766). 
Rallus phi/ippensis , AViglesw. Ay. Polyn. p. 59 (1891). 
Hypotaenidia philippinensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Vol. XXIII 
(Fam. Ra/lidae), p. 39 (1894). 
1 Specimen , and 7 eggs. 
'fhe single specimen was a young in down, probably belonging 
to this species. Colour of the down black; length of culmen (from 
the down-covered portion of the forehead), 13 mm.; the middle 
toe, with claw, 28 mm. 
Bill, blackish brown; the tip of the lower bill, light horn 
colour. 
The eggs are almost equal in size and colour of those of 
Rallus aquations, Their average dimensions were, length. 37 mm., 
breadth, 29 mm. (the shortest example was 35 mm., in length; 
the longest, 38 mm.). 
Native name: PilaJce. 
Chavadrins dominions, Mull. 1776. 
Charadnus dominicus, P. S. Muller, Nat. Svst. (naeh Lin., ed. XII), 
Suppl. p. 116 (1776). 
Charadrius fulvus, Wiglesw. Av. Polyn. p. 63 (1891). Charadnus 
dominion*, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Vol. XXIV (Fam. Charadriulae ), 
p. 195 (1896). 
