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central ones with white margins ; tail cuneiform broadly edged 

 with olive ; outer edge of the 1st primary white ; outer vanes of 

 the 2nd speckled with white about its centre ; all the rest of the 

 quills olive brown. 



Ventral aspect. Chin, and line down the throat black ; sides 

 of throat, commencing from the cheeks ashy; breast ashy barred 

 with white ; sides, and flanks olive barred with ash white ; vent 

 and centre of the belly white ; tail coverts white, the central ones 

 tinted with yellow. 



2nd primary longest ; long scapulars equal to the 4th primary ; 

 Length VJ inches; alar expanse \\\ inches; lengih of bill f 

 inch ; length of tarsus and middle toe together 3 inches. 



R. Noveboracensis. Yellow-breasted Rail. 



Gallinula Noveboracensis of Latham ! 



Fulica Noveboracensis of Gmelin ! 



Perdix Hudsonica of Idem ! 



Rallus ruficollis of Viellot ! 



Porzana (Columicops) Soveboracensis^ Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill dusky brown, greenish yellow at the base, and for 

 a short distance on the ridge ; legs and feet dusky flesh colour ; 

 irides hazel; eggs 10 to 16, white, (according to Richardson.) 



Dorsal aspect. Frontlet, line over the eye and sides of the 

 neck yellowish brown, faintly barred with dark brown ; crown of 

 head, and nape of neck black, with minute white tips to the 

 feathers ; interscapulary region, and scapulars, rump, great and 

 small wing, and tail coverts black, with one to two narrow white 

 bars on the feathers, and broadly margined, especially on the 

 scapulars, with yellowish brown : tail cuneiform, short, black, 

 with irregular, scarcely conspicuous, bars of white, not more than 

 three in number ; quills dusky, with a subterminal faint bar of 

 white ; auriculars brown, with a minute subterminal bar of 

 white. 



Ventral aspect. Chin yellowish white; throat, breast, and 

 sides brown internally, the remaining half of the feathers, first 

 faintly white, succeeded by yellowish brown, and tipped with 

 brown, giving these parts a wavy appearance of brown, yellowish 

 brown, and faint white; belly white; flanks and vent black, with 

 a couple of narrow bars of white ; tail coverts black with a sub- 

 terminal narrow bar of white, succeeded by brown and tipped 

 with white. 



