£34 



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RED-BREAST- 

 ED R. 



Description. 



IZEof our Rail: length nine inches. Bill pale: plumage 

 above dufky : over the eye a pale line : hind part and fides 

 of the neck, and the breaft, ferruginous : under parts of the body 

 afh-colour ; fides of it barred acrofs with white narrow lines : 

 legs yellow. 



In the collection of M. Tunjlall, Efquire. 



8. 

 CAPE R. 



JKSCRIFTIOH. 



Place, 



Rail us Capenfis, Lin. SyJ}. Mantiff. 177 1, p. 525. 

 The Rail, Brown 111. p. 94. pi. 38 ? 



"Vf EARLY the fize of the Crake Gallinule. Bill black : head, 

 neck, back, and upper part of the breaft, ferruginous : lower 

 part of the breaft, belly, thighs, and vent, quills and tail, undu- 

 lated with black and white : two middle tail feathers ferruginous : 

 legs of a deep blood red. 



Inhabits the Cafe of Good Hope ; and, if the fame as in Brown's 

 work, alfo met with at Ceylon. The bill and legs in his plate 

 are painted brown. 



BLUE NECKED 

 R. 



Description. 



Placi. 



T ENGTH feven inches and a half. Bill an inch and a half, 

 colour red ; the upper ridge and end dufky : all the upper 

 parts of the head, neck, and body, reddifh brown : chin, fore part 

 of the neck, and breaft, pale blue : from thence to the vent 

 white, tranfverfely ftreaked on the fides with black, as in the 

 common Water-Rail : vent white: legs red. . 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, From the drawings of Sir 

 Jofeph Banks.. 



Rail, 



