Adult male.--Above olive-brown, feathers centered with black and barred with broken white lines; crown, neck, and sides of neck dull chestnut, brighter on the last; center of crown blackish; chin and upper throat; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts, lower throat, fore neck, and breast slate-gray; posterior lower part of body, under wing-coverts, and axillars blackish barred with white; alula blackish brown; primary-coverts and primaries blackish brown spotted and barred with white; tail and its coverts similar to the back. "Basal half of bill rose-pink, the anterior half horn-color; legs and toes deep olive-brown; claws pale brown; iris red." (Oates.) Length, 246; culmen, 38; wing, 120; tail, 47; tarsus, 37. "Adult female.--Similar to the male, but paler and decidedly more olive, head not so bright chestnut; white bars on lower parts much tinged with fulvous. Length, 240; culmen, 35; wing, 110; tail, 41; tarsus, 35. "In winter the plumage is entirely overshaded with olive-brown and there is a distinct fulvescent tinge on abdomen and under tail-coverts, almost hiding the black bars on the latter. "Young.--Differs from the adults in having the bill black, and the upper surface much darker and without any white spots and bars on the back; head blackish, and back darker olive-brown with broad black centers to the feathers; no rufous on the head or sides of crown and sides of neck." (Sharpe.) 58. HYPOTÆNIDIA PHILIPPENSIS (Linnæus). PECTORAL RAIL. Rallus philippensis Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 263. Hypotænidia philippinensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 39; Hand-List (1899), 1, 96; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 113; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 16. Batan (Edmonds); Luzon (Everett, Whitehead, McGregor). Pacific Islands, Malay Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand.