R 



I L. 



235 



Rail, Brown III. p. g6. pi. 37. 



10. 

 CEYLON R. 



T ARGER than the common Rail. Bill red: head dufky : Description. 





neck, back, and tail, ferruginous ; the laft pretty long : wing 

 coverts as the back : prime quills black : fore part of the neck, 

 breaft, and belly, reddifh, clouded with brown : legs red. 

 Inhabits the ifland of Ceylon. 



C I Z E of ours. Bill blood red, tip pale brown : irides red : 

 head brown : over the eyes a whitifh ftreak : nape ferrugi- 

 nous : throat white: breaft blueifh afh-colour : back and rump 

 black, fprinkled with fmall white fpots, but not numerous : 

 wings fhort, wholly of a deep black, variegated with interrupted 

 white fafcise : quills brown: tail very fhort, black, fpotted with 

 white, fcarcely to be diftinguifhed from the reft of the feathers: 

 belly, fides, and vent, whitiih.: legs fiefh-colour : claws pale. 

 Inhabits Otaheite, and the neighbouring ifles. 



1 1. 

 PACIFIC R. 



Description; 



Pl/ 



ENGTH fix inches and a half. Bill black: eyelids and 

 irides red : general colour of the plumage brownifh black : 

 beneath dufky : legs reddifh brown. 



Inhabits Tango Taboo*, Otaheite, and the neighbouring ifles in 

 the South Seas. 



This varies in having the plumage more inclined to brown : 

 the vent white, tranfverfely barred with black lines : legs redo 

 Inhabits the ifland of Tanna. Sir Jofeph Banks. 



• Cook's laft Foy. i. 358. 



Hha 



12. 



TABUANR. 

 Description. 



Place. 



£r. 



