_Gallinula eurizonoïdes_ Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1845, p. 368. (No
locality; the type agrees with specimens from the Philippine
Islands.)
_Rallina eurizonoides eurizonoides_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev.
1932, p. 196 (Koror); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p.
221 (Koror).
_Rallina eurizonoides_ subsp. Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945,
p. 302 (Palau).
_Geographic range._--Philippine Islands. In Micronesia: Palau
Islands--Koror.
_Remarks._--This crake is apparently a straggler to western Micronesia
from the Philippine area.
=Aphanolimnas monasa= (Kittlitz)
Kusaie Black Rail
_Rallus monasa_ Kittlitz, Denks. Riese russ. Amer. Micron. und
Kamchat., 2, 1858, p. 30. (Type locality, Kushai.)
_Rallus tabuensis?_ Kittlitz, Obser. Zool., in Lutké, Voy. "Le
Séniavine," 3, 1836, p. 286 (Ualan).
_Ortygometra tabuensis_ Finsch, Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, pp. 297,
307 (Kuschai); _idem_, Ibis, 1881, pp. 106, 109 (Kushai);
Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6,
1890-1891 (1891), p. 60 (Ualan).
_Kittlitzia monasa_ Hartlaub, Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, 12, 1892,
p. 391 (Kuschai); Finsch, Mitth. Ornith. Ver. Wien, 17, 1893, p. 1
(Kuschai).
_Aphanolimnas monasa_ Sharpe, Bull. British Ornith. Club, 1892, p.
20 (Kuschai); Finsch, Deut. Ver. zum Schulze der Vogelwelt, 18,
1893, p. 457, pl. 4 (Ualan); Wiglesworth, Ibis, 1893, p. 214
(Kushai); Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Museum, 23, 1894, p. 115
(Kushai); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp. 110, 113 (Ualan);
Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 93 (Caroline
Islands); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 197 (Kusaie);
Peters, Check-list Birds World, 2, 1934, p. 189 (Kusaie);
Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 221 (Kusaie); Mayr,
Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 288 (Kusaie); _idem_, Audubon
Mag., 47, 1945, p. 280 (Kusaie).
_Porzana tabuensis_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 23, 1894, p.
111 (Kushai).
_Pennula monasa_ Dubois, Syn. Avium, 2, 1904, p. 969 (Kuschai).
_Porzana tabuensis tabuensis_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 42 (Kusaie).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Kusaie (probably
extinct).
_Characters._--Sharpe (1894:115) gives the following description:
"Adult. Black with a bluish-grey reflexion; quills and tail
somewhat browner; inner wing-coverts brownish with white spotting,
outer edge of first primary dull brownish, chin and middle of the
throat somewhat paler; bill blackish (Hartlaub.)."
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