Systematics, morphology and ecology of rails (Aves: Rallidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with one new species Author Hume, Julian Pender text Zootaxa 2019 2019-07-03 4626 1 1 107 journal article 26212 10.11646/zootaxa.4626.1.1 29c4832f-9970-4c9c-9bcb-2564407ac481 1175-5326 3335513 6CC12BAF-968F-4BDE-9315-340AF12A76EC Genus Hypotaenidia Reichenbach, 1853 Buff-banded Rail Hypotaenidia philippensis ( Linnaeus, 1766 ) Rallus philippensis : Linnaeus, 1766 , p.263 Hypotaenidia pectoralis (Lesson) : E. Newton, 1888 , p.552 Gallirallus philippensis : Olson, 1973 , p.397 Hypotaenidia philippensis : Dickinson & Remsen, 2013 , p. 155 ; del Hoyo & Collar, 2014 , p.344 Remarks: There is a single record of Buff-banded Rail Hypotaenidia philippensis ( Linnaeus, 1766 ) , a male killed at Champ des Mars, near Port Louis , in 1863 and held at UMZC, but the month is not known ( Rountree et al . 1952: 180 ; Benson 1970: 171 ). E. Newton (1888: 552) listed it as accidental, and the genus has not been recorded again in the Mascarenes, or anywhere else in the Indian Ocean ( Safford & Hawkins 2013 ). Benson considered it to be the race australis (now synonymised under H. p. mellori (Taylor & van Perlo 1998)), but noted that the individual was heavily worn, with most of the feathers of the crown and rump missing and the wings incomplete. If a genuine vagrant, it is a unique and extremely rare one, as the nearest source populations of H. philippensis are the Moluccas and eastern Australia (Taylor & van Perlo 1998).