Gallinula eurizonoides Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. (1845), 368.
Rallina euryzonoides Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 78,
pl. 8, fig. 1; Hand-List (1899), 1, 100; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 16.
Basilan (McGregor); Cagayancillo (McGregor); Cebu (Everett);
Leyte (Everett); Luzon (Cuming, Dussumier, Möllendorff, Bourns &
Worcester); Mindanao (Bourns & Worcester); Mindoro (McGregor,
Porter); Negros (Everett); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Sulu
(Guillemard).
Adult male.--Back, wings, rump, tail, and tail-coverts dark brown with
a slight olive tinge; head, neck, throat, and breast bright chestnut;
posterior half of breast, abdomen, flanks, under tail-coverts,
under wing-coverts and axillars black with wide white cross-bars,
most conspicuous on the breast; thighs brown with but little white;
primaries and secondaries blackish with wide white bars on inner
webs. "Bill blackish, the base tinged light green, tip grayish; legs
dull greenish leaden; feet dark lead-gray; nails gray; iris brilliant
red." (Everett.) Length of a male from Basilan, 254; wing, 128; tail,
65; exposed culmen, 23; tarsus, 46; middle toe with claw, 37.
Adult female.--Differs little if any from the male. A specimen from
Cagayancillo had upper mandible black; lower mandible pea-green, tip
bluish; legs very dark green; nails dark brown. Length, 215; wing, 128;
tail, 69; exposed culmen, 23; tarsus, 40; middle toe with claw, 35.
"So far as our observation goes R. eurizonoides is a woods form,
all of our specimens having been killed in deep forest. Eyes
orange-red; legs and feet dark olive; upper mandible nearly black;
lower olive-green." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Genus PORZANA Vieillot, 1816.
Smallest of the Philippine rails; bill slender; middle toe with claw
longer than tarsus.
Species.
a1. Upper surface freckled with white. ... auricularis (p. 71)
a2. Upper surface uniform. ... plumbea (p. 72)