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 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.)