Rallus paykulli Ljungh, Sver. Vet. Akad. Handl. (1813), 258. Porzana paykulli Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 82. Limnobænus paykulli Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 149; Hand-List (1899), 1, 105; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 17. Basilan (Steere Exp.). China, Eastern Siberia, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo. "Adult male.--Similar to L. fuscus, and having red legs like the latter species; upper surface ashy brown, as also the wings and tail; head ashy brown, with a rufous tinge on the forehead; lores, sides of face, throat, and breast pale vinous-chestnut; chin whitish; sides of breast ashy brown; flanks and thighs white, barred with dusky blackish; under tail-coverts black, barred and tipped with white; axillars and under wing-coverts white, with dusky blackish bars. 'Bill bluish gray, blackish on the culmen and about the tip, pea-green about the base; inside of mouth flesh-color; iris crimson; eyelid red; legs and toes salmon-color, brownish on the under surface of the tarsi, on the toes, and on their soles.' (Swinhoe.) Length, 215; culmen, 28; wing, 119; tail, 55; tarsus, 38. "Young (type of Rallina rufigenis).--Similar to the adult, but duller above, paler rufous below, the abdomen white with a vinous tinge; throat white; wing-coverts much more numerously banded with white." (Sharpe.) Steere is the only author who has recorded this species from the Philippines. Genus AMAURORNIS Reichenbach, 1852. Bill rather stout; base of upper mandible slightly swollen; legs and feet large; middle toe with claw longer than tarsus; plumage with neither spots nor bars. Species. a1. Chin, throat, and breast slate-gray. ... olivacea (p. 75) a2. Chin, throat, and breast pure white. ... phoenicura (p. 76) 67. AMAURORNIS OLIVACEA (Meyen). PHILIPPINE WATERHEN. Gallinula olivacea Meyen, Nova Acta C. L-C. Acad. Nat. Cur. (1834), 16, Suppl. 1, 109, pl. 20. Amaurornis olivacea Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 231, pl. 33, fig. 1; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 153; Hand-List (1899), 1, 106; Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 247 (eggs); Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 120. Amauronis olivacea McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1907), 17 (error). Tin-gaó, Ticao; ba-na-tí-ran, Calayan; ba-hu-goc', Batan. Batan (McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor); Cebu (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Leyte (Everett); Luzon (Meyen, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead); Masbate (McGregor); Mindanao (Platen, Goodfellow); Mindoro (McGregor); Negros (Keay); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Bourns & Worcester); Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor).