Rallus fasciatus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1822), 13, pt. 2, 328.
Rallina fasciata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23,
75; Hand-List (1899), 1, 99; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 16.
Balabac (Everett); Mindoro (Porter); Palawan (Whitehead,
Platen). Burmese provinces, Malay Peninsula, Indo-Malayan Islands,
Halmhéra, Pelew Islands.
"Adult male.--General color above ruddy brown, scapulars like the back;
rump a little more olive-brown; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers
reddish brown; lesser and median coverts ruddy brown, with buffy
white bars, each of which is margined with black; greater coverts
black, rather broadly barred with white, as well as the alula and
primary-coverts; quills blackish brown, checkered with white spots on
outer web, and barred with white on the inner one; secondaries broadly
barred and tipped with white, these white markings obsolete on the
innermost, rufous-brown secondaries; crown, neck, sides of face,
ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and chest chestnut, a little lighter
on the throat; breast and sides white, broadly banded with black,
the abdomen white; thighs white externally, ashy brown internally;
under tail-coverts barred with black and white or rufous-white;
under wing-coverts and axillars white, barred with black like the
inner lining of quills. 'Bill dark horny; orbital skin and gape
vermilion; feet and exposed portion of tibia bright coral-red; iris
dull cinnabar-red.' (Davidson.) Length, 216; culmen, 24; wing, 132;
tail, 48; tarsus, 46.
"Adult female.--Similar to the male in color, but a little browner,
and with narrower black bars on the under surface, the abdomen being,
therefore, whiter. 'Bill plumbeous; feet coral-red; iris reddish
brown.' (Davidson.) Length, 230; culmen, 23; wing, 124; tail, 48;
tarsus, 38.
"Young.--Differs from the adult in being browner, the bands on the wing
being buffy white; sides of face, fore neck, and chest ashy brown, with
a rufous tinge; throat whitish, as also the breast and abdomen, which
have a few bars of dusky blackish on the sides of the body." (Sharpe.)