3 86 SPOTTED WATER WREN. Clafs II; 



ruft-color. The legs are placed far behind, and are 

 of a dufky flefh-color. The toes very long, and di- 

 vided to their very origin ; though the feet are not 

 webbed, it takes the water ; but as Mr. Ray obferves, 

 rather runs on it, than fwims. 



This bird is properly fui generis, agreeing with no 

 other, fo forms a feparate tribe; M. Brijjon and 

 Linnaeus place it with the land Rail, and Mr. Ray 

 with the water hens, which have their peculiar cha- 

 racters, fo very diftincl from the Rail, as to conflitute 

 another genus, as may be obferved in the generical 

 table preceding this clafs. 



Genus VII. WATER HENS. 

 I. The SMALL SPOTTED WATER HEN, 



Gallinula ochra (Wynkernell.) etta, ]e petit Rafle d'Eau, on 



Gefner anj. 5)3. la Marouette. BriJJ'on a<v. v* 



Porcellana, Porzana, Grugnetto. 155./^. 13. Jig. 1. 



Aldr. av. iii. 181. Couchouan ou Marouette. Ar- 



Grinetta. Wil. orn. ff. 8. p. genv. Lithol. 533. tab. 25. 



315, Rallus porzana. Lin. Jyji. 262. 



Rait J]n. a<v. 1 1 $.fp. 7. Br. Zoo/. i 30. 



Rallus aquat. minor, five maru- 



i I t PI I S fpecies is not very frequent in Great- 

 Britain. It inhabites the fides of" fmall 

 Defer ft reams 3 concealing itfelf among the bufhes. Its 

 length is nine inches : its breadth fifteen •, its weight 

 four ounces five drachms. The head is brown, 

 fpotted with black ; the neck a deep olive, fpotted 

 with white •, from the bill beyond the eyes is a broad 

 grey bar ; the feathers of the back are black next 



their 



