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•i-Var.A. Lev. Muf. 



Description. ENGTH five inches and a half. Bill brown ; under man- 



dible yellow : upper parts of the plumage brown, marked 

 with many ftriated bands of white on the back and wing coverts : 

 the chin and fore part of the neck, as far as the bread, dirty 

 white : the middle of the neck behind rufous ; fides of it afh- 

 colour : belly, fides of the body, and vent, undulated black and 

 white : quills and tail cinereous brown : legs yellow. 

 Place. This laft I received from Jamaica; and have alfo feen the fame 



from Cayenne. It is clearly a mere variety or fexual difference 

 from the Little Rail ; and we have our fufpicion alfo, that it does 

 not efientially differ from the Jamaica fpecies. 



22. Barbary Water Hen, Shaw's Trav. p. 255. 



BARBARY R. 



Description. T ESS than a Plover. Bill an inch and ahalf long, and black : 



belly and bread dark brown, or rufty : back the fame, but 



much darker : wings fpotted with white : rump variegated above 



with black and white flreaks, below white : legs dark brown. 



Place. Inhabits Barbary. From the length of bill, in proportion to 



the fize of the bird, and from no barenefs of the forehead being 



mentioned, I fufpedV. this rather to belong to the genus under 



which it is now placed, than to that of the Gallinuk referred to 



by the author. 



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