_Rallus fasciatus_ Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13, pt. 2,
1822, p. 328. (Type locality, Benkulen, western Sumatra.)
_Rallina fasciata_ Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867 (1868),
p. 831 (Pelew); Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1868, pp. 7, 118 (Pelew); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872,
pp. 89, 106 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp.
5, 37 (Palau); Salvadori, Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p. 264
(Pelew); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6,
1890-1891 (1891), p. 60 (Pelew); Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus.,
23, 1894, p. 75 (Pelew); Finsch, Deut. Ver. zum Schutze der
Vogelwelt, 18, 1893, p. 459 (Palau); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 41 (Pelew); Mathews, Syst. Avium
Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 88 (Pelew); Hand-list Japanese Birds,
rev., 1932, p. 196 (Palau); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 2,
1934, p. 171 (Pelew); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p.
221 (Palau); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 287 (Palau);
Delacour, Birds Malaysia, 1947, p. 77 (Palau).
_Geographic range._--Burma east and south to Malaysia and the
Philippines. In Micronesia: Palau--exact locality unknown.
_Remarks._--The Malay Banded Crake is known in the Palau Islands from
birds taken by captains Tetens, Heinsohn, and Peters and by Kubary
according to Finsch (1875: 37). It has not been taken by later
collectors. Two unsexed and undated skins are in the collection of the
American Museum of Natural History; these are from the Kubary
collection.
=Rallina eurizonoides eurizonoides= (Lafresnaye)