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outer one edged with white : the tail is olive brown; the outer 

 feather white, and a little rounded in fliape : legs olive brown : 

 garter round the knee yellow. 



This inhabits France,, and is a folitary bird; frequenting the Place. 



fame places with the common Gallinides, but not mixing with that 

 fpecies : it feeds on the fame food as that bird, and the flefh 

 is much like it in the tafle. 



In all probability this is the fame with Aldrovanius's Italian 

 Rail, which is taken in the neighbourhood of Venice with great 

 ceremony : feveral peifons wading among the marfhy places, and 

 driving them from the bufhes and places where they lurk, while 

 others being ready with Hawks, let them off as foon as-they take 

 wing. They are faid to have been much efteemed at the time of 

 the above-mentioned author.. 



La grande Poule-d'Eau, Brif. Grn. vi. p. 9. 3. }< j. 



— . , ou Porzane, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 173. Var. A, 



Gallina chloropus altera Aldrov. Rati Syn. p. 114. 3. 



The other green-footed Water-Hen of Aldrovand, Witt. Orn. p. 313. 



ARGER than the laft : length eighteen inches. Bill two Description, 

 inches long ; the bafe, and moft part of the under mandible, 

 yellow ; the reft of the length black : bare part on the forehead 

 yellow : the head and neck are blackifh : the upper parts of the 

 body and wings chefnut : breaft, belly, and fides, dull afh-colour, 

 edged with white : lower belly and vent white : die thighs afh- 

 colour, crofied with indiftincl: lines of white : tail rounded in 

 fhape ; the colour chefnut, except the two outer feathers, which 

 are white : legs green. 



The female differs only in being paler in colour. Female. 



Yellow- 



