no 



The Amazon Rail. 



ing habits of the American Clapper Rail {R. obsoletus) or 

 of our owjii Corn-crake and Water Rail, but this may be due 

 to its extreme tameness. In this it resembles its little North 

 American cousin P. jamaiciensis, one of the least shy of all 

 the water birds. I have several times had these run over my 

 leu's when reclining in a boat, 



The Amazon Kail. 



[Photo hv W. S/ton lii/i/v). 



My Rail spends a good deal of its time in the trees 

 and bushes, and always chooses one of the highest to roost in 

 at night. In this respect its habits are more like those of 

 of the Wood Ibises than of the true Rails. I have occasion- 

 ally seen our English Rail well up in the top of a high bush 

 near the water, but I rather fancy that they must have been 



