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 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.