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WATER RAIL. 



CXASS II. 



GENUS XI. RAIL. 



Bill slender, a little compressed, and slightly 



ineurvated. 

 Nostrils small. 

 Tongue rough at the end. 

 Tail very short. 



1. Water. Rallus aquaticus. R. alis gri- 

 seis fusco maculatis, hypo- 

 chondriis albo maculatis, 

 rostro subtus fulvo. Lath. 

 Ind. orn, 755. id. Syn. v. 

 227. 



LeRasIenoir. Melon av. 112. 



Gallina cinerea (ashhunlin). 

 Gesner av. bl5. 



Ralla aquatica. Aldr. av. iii. 



179- 



Water-rail, Bilcock, or Brook 



Ouzel. Wil. or 71. 314. 

 Raii Syn. av. 113. 



Wasser hennl. Kram. 348. 

 Rallus aquaticus. Gm. Lin, 



712- 

 Faun. Suec. sp. 1Q5. 

 Rallus aquaticus, le Rasle 



d'Eau. Brisson av. 161. tab. 



12. Jig. 2. Hist, d'ois. viii. 



154. Pl.Enl. 749. 

 Scopoli, No. 135. 

 Norvegis Vand-Rixe. Feroen-' 



sihus Jord-Koene. Brunnick^ 



193. 

 Br. Zool. 130. E. E. 



JL HE Water Rail has a long slender body with 

 short concave wings. It delights less in flying 

 than running, which it does very swiftly along 

 the edges of brooks covered with bushes : as it 

 runs, every now and then it flirts up its tail ; and 



