370 Rail. 



3— GULAR RAIL. 



Rallus gularis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 196. 328. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill dirty red ; plumage black brown, 

 undulated with white ; forehead, crown, hindhead, and nape, ferru- 

 ginous; chin white; throat and breast deep lead-colour ; belly 

 fasciated with white; legs blackish. 



Inhabits Java, and called Tikussan ; also Sumatra, and there 

 named Ayam Ayam. 



4. —FOUR-STREAKED RAIL. 



Rallus quadristrigatus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 196. 



LENGTFI eight inches and a half. Plumage above brown, 

 mixed with grey; beneath paler; chin whitish; head above dusky, 

 on each side two streaks of white. — Inhabits Java. 



5— VIRGINIAN RAIL. 



Rallus Virginianus, Lin. i. 263. Gm. Lin. i. 716. Bris. v. 175. Id. 8vo. ii. 257. 



Ind. Orn. ii. 755. 

 Rallus Pensilvanicus, Bris. Sup. 138. Id. Svo. ii. 257. 

 L'Ypecaha brun, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 374 ? Var. 

 American Water Rail, Edw. pi. 279. 

 Virginian Rail, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 408. Gen. Syn. v. 228. 1. A. Amer. Orn. vii. 



109. pi. 62. f. 1. 



SIZE and shape of the Common Species ; length ten inches ; 

 breadth fourteen. Bill dusky red, point black; irides red; crown 

 dusky; sides ash-colour ; from the bill to the eye a white line; lower 

 eyelid white ; chin the same ; neck behind, back, and tail, brown, 

 streaked with black ; fore part of the neck and breast brownish 

 orange ; lower part of the belly, sides, and thighs, barred dusky 



