4*4 



HAIL 



Class l\ 



XXXIV. 

 RAIL. 



BILL flender, a little comprefTcd, and (lightly 



incurvated. 

 NOSTRILS fmall. 

 TONGUE rough at the end, 

 TAIL very fhort. 



J4. Water. Le Rafie noir. Belon a<v. 112. 

 Gallina cinerea (aftihunlin). 



Gefner a<v. 515. 

 Ralla aquatica. Aldr. av. 



III. 179. 

 Water-rail, Bilcock, or Brook 



Ouzel. Wil. orn. 314. 

 Rali fyn. a<v. 113. 

 Wafler hennl Kram. 348. 



Rail us aquaticus. Lin. fyfL 



262. 

 Faun. Suec.fp. 195. 

 Rallus aquaticus, le Rafie 



d'Eau. BriJfonan}.\^\.tab. 



12. fig. 2 . Scopoli, No 1 5 5n 



Ncrvegis Vand-Rixe. Feroen- 



Jibus Jord-Koene. Brunnich) 



193- 

 Br. Zool. 130. 



De scrip. 



THE water rail is a bird of a long flender 

 body, with fhort concave wings. It delights 

 lefs in flying than running; which it does very fwiftly 

 along the edges of brooks covered with bufhes : as 

 it runs, every now and then flirts up its tail; and in 

 flying hangs down its legs : actions it has in com- 

 mon with the water hen. 



Its weight is four ounces and a half. The length 

 to the end of the tail twelve inches : the breadth, 

 fixteen. The bill is flender, flightly incurvated, 

 one inch three quarters long : the upper mandible 

 black, edged with red^ the lower orange colored: 



the 



