GALLINULE. 403 



over each eye cinereous; chin and throat white, the latter inclining 

 to cream-colour ; lower part of the neck, breast, sides, and greater 

 part of the body beneath, plain fawn-colour; lower belly, thighs, 

 and vent, olive-brown, spotted with white, and slightly barred with 

 paler brown; hind part and sides of the neck pale olive-brown, 

 back and scapulars black, deeply margined with the same olive- 

 brown, the inner margins very pale; rump pale olive-brown; tail 

 the same; legs bright green for three-eighths of an inch above the 

 knee ; toes long. 



A specimen of the above was shot near Ashburton, in Devonshire, 

 in 1809, and communicated by Mr. Tucker: at first sight it might 

 be taken for a young bird of the Spotted Gallinule, but we have 

 the authority of Colonel Montagu, to introduce it here as a nonde- 

 script, and clearly new, as he has examined it with attention, and 

 compared it with the Spotted Species. 



A second of these, which probably differs in sex, had the sides 

 of the head brown ; the white of the chin less pure ; and the breast 

 and belly crossed, and mixed with fawn-colour and dull white; on 

 the wing coverts and lesser quills, and middle of the back blackish, 

 with small white spots; in other things like the former description. 



6.— DWARF GALLINULE. 



Rallus Pusillus, Ind. Orn. ii. 761. Gm. Lin. i. 719. It. Poseg. p. 26. Pall, reise, 



iii. 700. 30. Bechst. Deuts. iii. 274. t. xvi. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 484. 

 Gallinula pusilla, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 690. Gerin. v. pi. 482. 

 Rallus parvus, Scop, Ann. i. 108 ? 

 Dwarf Rail, Gen. St/n. Sup. ii. 323. 



THIS is not unlike the Water Rail, but only the size of a Lark, 

 and somewhat similar in colour; the face, fore part of the neck, 

 and as far as the middle of the breast, blue grey; chin white; through 

 the eyes a pale ferruginous streak ; all the upper parts black, mixed 



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