490^ CLAPPER, ^ND VIRGINIAN RAIL,. 



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407. Clappb-r. T^ "Wicli the crown, and whole upper part of neck, back, and 

 m\.* wings, of an olive brownj.edged with pale afh-color: primaries - 

 dark, edged with tawny : tail of the fame color : cheeks cinerebus : 

 throat white: under fide of the neck and breaft brown, tinged with> 

 yellow; fpace beyond the thighs barred with dark cinereous and' 

 white : legs brown. Length fourteen inches; of the bill two. 

 Ela-cb^ Inhabits JV^w 2"(jr/&. Galled there the M^aicw C/^^^^r. It arrives 



there in A%, lays in June,^nd difappears in O.^ken'^^l.^y-. Mus. — »- 

 Bi--. Mus^ 



4o8.-¥iiiGiwjAN.. Rallus Virginianus,.Z/a. SyJ}. 263. — Latham, iiL. 



American Water Rail, Ediu, 279.'^Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mbs. 



R. 



With a dufky bill, red at the bafe of the lower mandible ;■ 

 ■ crown duflcy : cheeks cinereous : from the bill to each eye a 

 white line : throat whitilh : upper part of the neck and back dufky, 

 bordered with brown : ridge of the wing white : coverts ferruginous ; . 

 primaries and tail, dulky : under fide of the neck and breaft of a?, 

 brownifh orange : lower belly, fides, and thighs, dufky, barred with, 

 white: vent black, white, and orange: legs of a dirty flefh-color,. 

 A Variety In fize and fh ape like the Englifh Rail *, of which it feems a mere- 

 English'raii; variety ; ours having a deep afh-colored breaft inftead of a red one.- 

 Pj,ac». Inhabits Penfylvania. The common kind is found in the Feroe 



iQands, Normay, as far as Sondmery Sweden, Rujui, and the weft o£ 

 Sibiria.. 



*■ U Rale d'Eau,, Z)#,^«^e», viii. 154.— P/. Enl. 74.9. 



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