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GALLINULE, 



Var. B. 

 Description. 



Place. 



Lev. Muf. 



ESS than the others. Bill longer than in the firfl: : plumage 

 like that of the Crake on the upper parts of the body: wing 

 coverts and under parts rufty brown : legs dufky. 



Suppofed to have come from China, as we have feen fuch a 

 one in fome paintings done in that part of the world. 



2. 



CARTHAGENA 

 G. 



Description. 

 Place. 



3- 



CAYENNE G. 



De 



scription. 



Fulica Carthagena, Lin. Syft. i. p. 258. 6. 



IZE of the Coot. Bare place on the forehead blue : the body 

 wholly of a rufous colour. 

 Inhabits Carthagena. 



La grande Poule-d'Eau de Cayenne, Buf. Olf. viii. p. 182. — PL Enl. 352. 



Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH eighteen inches. Bill yellow, with a dufky tip : 

 the chin, fides of the head, and a little way on the fore part of 

 the neck, greyifh white : head, neck, tail, lower belly, and thighs, 

 dufky grey brown : back and wing coverts dull olive : breaft, 

 upper part of the belly, and quills, bright reddifh rufous colour : 

 legs red. 



The young birds are wholly grey, not having any red about 

 them till after the firft moult. 



Inhabits Guiana and Cayenne, where it is pretty common in the 

 marfhy places, and lives on fmall fifh and infects. 



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