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YELLOW- 

 BREASTED G. 



Description. 



Place. 



Yellow-breafted Gallinule, Aril. Zool. N° 410. 



O I Z E fmaller than a Quail. Crown and hind part of the 

 neck dark olivaceous brown, fpotted with white : back plain 

 brown : fcapulars edged with yellowifh white : bread dirty yel- 

 low : legs brown. 



Inhabits the province of New York. 



,5, Rallas Carolinus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 263. 9. 



■+- SOREE G. La Poule-Sultane de-la Baye d'Hudfon, Brif. Orn. v. p. 541. 9. 



Le Rale de Virginie, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 165. 

 Little American Water-Hen, Edio. pi. 144. 



Soree, Catejb. Car. i- pi. 70. — Burnab. Trav. p. 16. \z.-ArSl. Zool. N" 409. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. HP HIS fpecies is the fize of a Quail, but ftands higher on its 

 legs : length from feven to eight inches. Bill an inch long, 

 and yellow : over the forehead fomewhat bare : irides red : the 

 crown, and the upper parts of the bird, are dull brown, fpotted 

 with black : the whole face, round the bill, the chin, and part of 

 the neck before, black : fides of the head, the neck, and breaft, 

 blueifh alh-colour: belly and fides dufky white; the laft tranf- 

 verfely barred with black: the wing coverts are the colour of the 

 back, but plain ; fcapulars edged with white : outer edge of 

 the wing white : quills and tail brown : legs dufky green. 



Thefe inhabit Virginia, at certain feafons, in vaft plenty. Bur- 

 naby * mentions catching one hundred dozen of Sorujfes in one 



* Burnab. Trav. p. 42, alfo p. 16. — He here calls them more delicious than 

 the Ortolan. 



night, 



Place and 



Manners. 



