A Manual of Philippine BirdsMcGregor, Richard C. (Richard Crittenden)
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A Manual of Philippine Birds
McGregor, Richard C. (Richard Crittenden)
Birds -- Philippines
Rallus fasciatus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1822), 13, pt. 2, 328.
Rallina fasciata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23,
75; Hand-List (1899), 1, 99; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 16.
Balabac (Everett); Mindoro (Porter); Palawan (Whitehead,
Platen). Burmese provinces, Malay Peninsula, Indo-Malayan Islands,
Halmhéra, Pelew Islands.
"Adult male.--General color above ruddy brown, scapulars like the back;
rump a little more olive-brown; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers
reddish brown; lesser and median coverts ruddy brown, with buffy
white bars, each of which is margined with black; greater coverts
black, rather broadly barred with white, as well as the alula and
primary-coverts; quills blackish brown, checkered with white spots on
outer web, and barred with white on the inner one; secondaries broadly
barred and tipped with white, these white markings obsolete on the
innermost, rufous-brown secondaries; crown, neck, sides of face,
ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and chest chestnut, a little lighter
on the throat; breast and sides white, broadly banded with black,
the abdomen white; thighs white externally, ashy brown internally;
under tail-coverts barred with black and white or rufous-white;
under wing-coverts and axillars white, barred with black like the
inner lining of quills. 'Bill dark horny; orbital skin and gape
vermilion; feet and exposed portion of tibia bright coral-red; iris
dull cinnabar-red.' (Davidson.) Length, 216; culmen, 24; wing, 132;
tail, 48; tarsus, 46.
"Adult female.--Similar to the male in color, but a little browner,
and with narrower black bars on the under surface, the abdomen being,
therefore, whiter. 'Bill plumbeous; feet coral-red; iris reddish
brown.' (Davidson.) Length, 230; culmen, 23; wing, 124; tail, 48;
tarsus, 38.
"Young.--Differs from the adult in being browner, the bands on the wing
being buffy white; sides of face, fore neck, and chest ashy brown, with
a rufous tinge; throat whitish, as also the breast and abdomen, which
have a few bars of dusky blackish on the sides of the body." (Sharpe.)
61. RALLINA EURIZONOIDES (Lafresnaye).
PHILIPPINE BANDED CRAKE.
Gallinula eurizonoides Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. (1845), 368.
Rallina euryzonoides Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 78,
pl. 8, fig. 1; Hand-List (1899), 1, 100; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 16.
Basilan (McGregor); Cagayancillo (McGregor); Cebu (Everett);
Leyte (Everett); Luzon (Cuming, Dussumier, Möllendorff, Bourns &
Worcester); Mindanao (Bourns & Worcester); Mindoro (McGregor,
Porter); Negros (Everett); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Sulu
(Guillemard).
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