Rallus paykulli Ljungh, Sver. Vet. Akad. Handl. (1813), 258.
Porzana paykulli Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890),
82.
Limnobænus paykulli Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23,
149; Hand-List (1899), 1, 105; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 17.
Basilan (Steere Exp.). China, Eastern Siberia, Malay Peninsula,
Java, Borneo.
"Adult male.--Similar to L. fuscus, and having red legs like the
latter species; upper surface ashy brown, as also the wings and tail;
head ashy brown, with a rufous tinge on the forehead; lores, sides of
face, throat, and breast pale vinous-chestnut; chin whitish; sides of
breast ashy brown; flanks and thighs white, barred with dusky blackish;
under tail-coverts black, barred and tipped with white; axillars and
under wing-coverts white, with dusky blackish bars. 'Bill bluish gray,
blackish on the culmen and about the tip, pea-green about the base;
inside of mouth flesh-color; iris crimson; eyelid red; legs and toes
salmon-color, brownish on the under surface of the tarsi, on the toes,
and on their soles.' (Swinhoe.) Length, 215; culmen, 28; wing, 119;
tail, 55; tarsus, 38.
"Young (type of Rallina rufigenis).--Similar to the adult, but
duller above, paler rufous below, the abdomen white with a vinous
tinge; throat white; wing-coverts much more numerously banded with
white." (Sharpe.)
Steere is the only author who has recorded this species from the
Philippines.
Genus AMAURORNIS Reichenbach, 1852.
Bill rather stout; base of upper mandible slightly swollen; legs and
feet large; middle toe with claw longer than tarsus; plumage with
neither spots nor bars.
Species.
a1. Chin, throat, and breast slate-gray. ... olivacea (p. 75)
a2. Chin, throat, and breast pure white. ... phoenicura (p. 76)