RAIL. 



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GENUS LXXXVI— RAIL. 



1 Water Rail 

 A Var. 



2 New-Holland 



3 Gular 



4 Four-streaked 



5 Virginian 



6 Clapper 



7 Troglodyte 

 A Var. 



8 Philippine 

 A Var. 



B Var. 



C Var. 



D Var. 



9 Banded 



10 Brown 



11 Red-breasted 



12 Cape 



13 Blue-necked 

 A Var. 



14 Dark 



15 Rufous 



16 Rufous-headed 



17 Ceylon 



18 Pacific 



19 Tabuan 

 A Var. 



20 Black 



21 Sandwich 



22 Otaheite 



23 Dusky 



24 Long-billed 



25 Barbary 



26 Doubtful 



27 Fasciated 



ijILL slender, a little compressed, and slightly bent. 

 Nostrils small, frequently placed in a furrow. 

 Tongue rough at the end. 

 Body compressed on the sides. 



At the edge of the wing, in several, one or more short spurs. 

 Tail short for the most part. 



1— WATER RAIL. 



Rallus aquaticus, Ind. Orn. ii. 755. Lin. i. 262. Fn. suec. No. 195. Gm. Lin. i: 



712. Scop. i. No. 155. Brun. No. 193. Muller, No. 219. Kramer, 349. 2. 



Klein, 103. 2. Id. Stem. 22. t. 23. f. 1. a. b. Fn. arag. 79. Bris. v. 151. 1. 



t. 12. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 251. Raii, 113. A. 2. Id. 190. 12. Borowsk. iii. 102. 



Fn. Helv. Schcef. el. t, 60.— the head. Will. 234. t. 56. Tern. Man. 442. Id. 



Ed. ii. 683. 

 Scolopax obscura, S. G. Gmelin. iii. p. 92. t. 17. 

 Gallina palustris vulgaris, Gerin: v. t. 481. 



Gallinula aquatica, Act. Nid. ii. 340. f. 12. Mars. Dan. v. 68. t. 32. 

 Gallina serica, Raii, 114. 4 ? Will. 235. 



Rale d'Eau, Buf. viii. 154. pi. 13. PI. enl. 749. Robert, pi. 5. 

 Die grosse Wasserralle, Naturf. xiii. 221. 135. Bechst. Deutsch. iii. 267. 1. 14. Id. 



Ed. 2d. iv. 464. Schmid, 133. t. 117. 



