The Micronesian White-browed Rail is a shy bird with the typical skulking habits of most rails. The NAMRU2 party did not find the bird at Guam, although reports were obtained that it was present in the marsh and swamp areas. Coultas (field notes) tells of observing the rail at Palau at a fresh water lake on Babelthuap, where it was difficult to obtain and apparently rare. Seale (1901:30) obtained a female specimen at Guam from native boys who snared it in a sweet potato patch near the Agaña River. This bird, taken in June or July, had eggs ready for laying. McElroy of the NAMRU2 party observed rails at Truk in brackish swamps, where he found them to be fairly common. A male which was taken in December had enlarged gonads. At Asor in the Ulithi Atoll, the NAMRU2 party learned that a small rail (possibly of this species) was found at taro patches in the early days of occupation, but that it was apparently eliminated by clearing operations. The taking of a bird at Bikini, as reported by Yamashina (1940:679), is further evidence that these birds may subsist on coral atolls as well as on the high volcanic islands; possibly the bird of the Marshalls may have been derived from the south rather than from the west. Unlike _Rallus owstoni_, this bird is apparently restricted to swampy areas, and may be eliminated from its habitat by drainage or clearing by man. It may always persist, however, in the taro patches maintained by the natives. =Gallinula chloropus= subsp. near =orientalis= Horsfield Gallinule _Gallinula orientalis_ Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13, 1821, p. 195. (Type locality, Java.) _Gallinula chloropus indicus_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 197 (Babelthuap); Takatsukasa and Yamashina, Dobutsu. Zasshi, 44, 1932, p. 266 (Pelew, Coror). _Gallinula chloropus indica_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 221 (Babelthuap). _Gallinula chloropus_ subsp. Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 49 (Peleliu, Angaur). _Geographic range._--Malaysia from southern Malay Peninsula to Celebes. In Micronesia: Palau Islands--Babelthuap, Koror, Peleliu, Angaur. _Characters._--Adult: Resembles _G. c. indica_ Blyth, _G. c. lozanoi_ Lletget and _G. c. guami_ Hartert, but smaller and paler; upper wing-coverts less olivaceous-brown and more slate-colored; back, rump, and scapulars less richly washed with olivaceous-brown. Resembles _G. c. orientalis_ from Java in size, but much paler. _Measurements._--An unsexed adult bird from Angaur measures: wing, 150; bill from rictes, 27.1; bill from nostril, 13.4; tarsus, 46. _Specimens examined._--Total number, 3 (2 males, 1 unsexed) from Palau Islands, USNM--Angaur (Sept. 21).