a6 4 G A L L I N U L E. 



margins, and rounded in fhape * : legs dirty green : toes very 

 long. 

 Place. This fpecies inhabits Italy, about Bologna, and known by the 



name of Grinetta, and at Milan called Gillerdine. This has much 

 affinity, if not the fame, with the following fpecies. 



18. Rallus porzana, Lin. Sj/l. i. p. 262. 3. — Scop. Ann. i. N" 144. — Frifch. 



-SPOTTED G. t2IIi 



Le petit Rale d'Eau, ou Ie Marouette, Brif. Orn. v. p. 155. pi. 13. fig. I.— 



Buf. Oif. viii. p. 157. — PL Enl. 751. 

 Gallinula ochra, Wynkernel, Raii Syn. p. 115. 7. — Will. Orn. p. 316. 

 Spotted Gallinule, Br. Zool. N° z 1 5. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. *TPHIS is much fmaller than the Crake, and meafures in 

 length lefs than nine inches : breadth near fifteen : weight 

 four ounces. The bill three quarters of an inch long, and of a 

 green ifh yellow : irides reddifh hazel : the head is brown, dafhed 

 with black : over the eyes a ftreak of pale grey : hind part of the 

 neck and fides cinereous brown, marked with fmall white fpots : 

 back and wing coverts olive brown, dafhed with black, and 

 fpotted with white on the edges of the feathers : greater coverts 

 blotched and barred with white: fides of the head, beneath the 

 eyes, the chin, and fore part of the neck, pale grey, dotted with 

 brown: bread brown, fpotted with white : fides under the wings 

 irregularly barred with white: belly cinereous and white mixed; 

 down the middle dirty white : vent and under tail coverts yellow- 

 ifh white : legs pale green. 



* Willughly obferves, that the tail when fpread out is concave, and not even, 

 as in other birds, and is a peculiar chara&eriftic. 



This 



