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Show 768 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [NOV. 20, tive remarks, and called both species Rail. As Gmelin's diagnosis of his Rallus zeylanicus does not apply to the ferruginous-breasted Rail of Ceylon, The Rail of Brown, we must adopt the next title, that of Lafresnaye. I cannot with certainty identify the bird described and figured by Brown under his title of Rail (Rallus zeylanicus, Gm.) ; but it is apparently a gallinaceous bird-possibly Galloperdix spadiceas (Gm.). 67. AMAURORNIS OLIVACEA (176). [Cebu, male, March. Iris crimson, bill dark green, paler at tip, legs yellow-brown, b. Cebu, female, March. Iris crimson, bill grass-green, legs and feet brownish dull yellow.] 68. HYPOTANIDIA TORQUATA (177). [Cebu, male and female, March. Iris crimson, feet and nails lead-grey, bill black.] The series sent consists of thirteen examples of both sexes, some being from Luzon. In plumage the males do not differ from the females. Every variety occurs in the colouring and extent of the pectoral band, which is dark pure maroon in the full plumage. 69. HYPOTiENIDIA STRIATA (179). Hypotcenidia obscuriora, Hume, Str. F. 1874 (January), p. 302, "Andamans." Hypotcenidia ferrea, Walden, Ibis, 1874, April, p. 147, "Andamans." [Cebu, male, March. Iris burnt-sienna brown, bill blackish brown, base carmine, legs greyish brown, b. Cebu, male, April. Iris Indian red; bill purplish brown, base dull crimson ; legs brown.] These Zebu specimens may be regarded as being typical; and from them Andaman and Rangoon examples cannot be separated ; consequently the titles founded on the Andaman race must fall. A recomparison made with Continental-Indian and Malaccan examples does not support my former (I. c.) opinion that the Andaman birds specifically differ from Indian and Malaccan; otherwise the Indian race would require a new title. 70. TRINGOIDES HYPOLEUCUS (183). [Cebu, male, April. Iris brown, bill dark brown, legs light greenish-grey, nails black.] 71. TOTANUS INCANUS. Scolopax incanus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 658. [Cebu, female, April. Iris dark brown, bill very dark brown, legs ochreous yellow, nails black.] Wings 6*50. Breeding-dress. 72. GALLINAGO MEGALA (188). [Cebu, female, April.] |