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Clapper Rail, ArB. Zoo!. N° 407. 2. 



Lev. Muf. *■ CLAPPER R. 



T ARGER than our Rail: length from fourteen to fixteen Description. 



inches. Bill two inches long ; colour dufky brown : crown, 

 and all the upper parts of the bird, olive brown, the feathers 

 edged with pale afh-colour : cheeks afh-colour: chin white: fore 

 part of the neck and bread yellowifh brown : fides over the thighs 

 barred afh-colour and white : legs brown. 



Inhabits New Tork from May to October. Lays in June. Is Place, 



called there the Meadow Clapper*.. 



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TROGLODYTE 

 O IZE of a fmall Fowl: length feventeen inches. Bill reddifh R - 



brown, two inches long, and a trifle bent: irides dirty yel- Descriptiom - 

 low : the feathers of the crown, neck, back, breaft, and belly, 

 are brown, margined with rufous grey : cheeks and throat cine- 

 reous : over the eye a ftreak of the fame : the wings are very 

 fhort; the coverts the fame colour as the back : the baftard wing . 

 furnifhed with a fpine, which is half an inch long, ft'rait, pointed, 

 and lies hid among the feathers: quills brown, marked with 

 tranfverfe ferruginous fpots on each margin: vent and fides 

 brown: tail four inches long; brown, margined with rufous 

 grey : legs reddifh brown. 



That in the Leverian Mujeum has the upper parts of a deep 

 chefnut, the feathers dafhed with black down the fhafts : the un- 

 der parts cinereous, verging to chefnut on the breaft : quills,. 



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