RAS TIL. 
Rallus pufillus, Jud, Orn. it. p. 761. 24.—Pall. reife, iil. p. 700. 30.17. Pofeg. 
p- 26. 
HIS is fomewhat fimilar to the Water Rail, but not bigger than 
a Lark, and fomewhat the colour of it: the face, fore part of the 
neck, and down the middle of the breaft, blue grey: chin white: 
through the eyes a pale ferruginous ftreak : the upper parts are black 
and ferruginous mixed, marked on the back with longitudinal lines 
of white: belly and vent black, croffed with narrow white bands: 
legs green. 
Inhabits the falt Jakes and reedy places in Dauuria; and is obferved 
often to flirt up the tail between the wings, and carry it in that mans 
ner. 
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DescriFrion. 
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