RAIL SHOOTING. 



RAIL RALLUS CAROLINUS COMMON SORA RAIL, OR, LITTLE 

 AMERICAN WATER HEN. 



Description. "The rail is nine inches long, 

 and fourteen in extent; bill, yellow, blackish 

 towards the point ; lores, front, crown, chin, and 

 stripe down the throat, black ; line over the eye, 

 cheeks and breast, fine light ash; sides of the 

 crown, neck, and upper parts generally, olive 

 brown, streaked with black, and also with long 

 lines of pure white, the feathers being centred 

 with black on an olive ground, and edged with 

 white; these touches of white are shorter near 

 the shoulder of the wing, lengthening as they de- 

 scend ; wing plain olive brown ; tertials, streaked 

 with black, and long lines of white; tail, pointed, 

 dusky olive brown, centred with black, the four 

 middle feathers bordered for half their length 

 with lines of white ; lower part of the breast 

 marked with semi-circular lines of white, on a 

 light ash ground; belly, white; sides, under the 

 wings, deep olive, barred with black, white, and 



