i4© SNIPE. 



with black and grey: wing coverts finely undulated black and 

 afh-colour : the fecond quills and tail are undulated grey and 

 black, with three or four oval fpots of a pale rufous, encircled 

 with black : the great quills are banded with rufous and black 

 alternately : the under part of the body white : legs the colour of. 

 the bill. 

 Place, Inhabits Maddgafcar. 



9' Rallus Benghalenfis, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 263. 8. 



Var. D. 



Le Chevalier de Bengale, Brif. Orn. v. p. 209. 9, 

 • vert, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 520. 



Bengal Water Rail, Alhln, iii. pi. 90. 



Description, CIZE of the laft : length eight inches and a half. Bill fhorter- 

 than in the others ; colour of it and the irides yellow 1. 

 crown of the head white : round the eyes the fame, palling 

 towards the hind head, and ending in a point: fides of the 

 head, throat, and neck, deep brown : upper part of the back, 

 the fcapulars, and wing coverts, green : lower part of the back 

 and rump, the upper tail coverts,, and under parts of the body, 

 white : prime quills purple ; the outer webs marked with five 

 orange fpots : the fecondaries are green, and as long as the 

 greater quills ; the one nearer! the body white : tail purple, 

 marked with orange fpots : legs of a greenifh yellow. 

 Flacs^ Inhabits Bengal. I have fcarce a doubt of this being a further 



variety of the Cape fpecies. 



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