GAI.LINULE. 42! 



lt with their paddles: they are bigger than a Lark, and are delicious 

 " eating. During the time of their continuing in season, you meet 

 " with them at the tables of most of the planters, breakfast, dinner. 

 " and supper." 



In Georgia it is seen frequently in the marshes, and sides of 

 ponds, but is not very common ; is known there by the name of 

 Water-Hen, or Sedge-Hen, also the Water-Rail. It should seem 

 that both the Virginian Rail, and this bird are known under the 

 appellation of Soree, except they are one and the same, which is not 

 improbable. Bar tram calls it the Soree Bird, or Little Brown Rail : 

 and adds, that it is also called Wigeon in Pennsylvania; extends to 

 Paraguay, two of them having been met with there. 



One, which I suppose to differ in sex, was sent from Georgia ; 

 crown of the head rufous brown, down the middle a dark streak ; 

 sides of the head very pale cinereous brown ; chin white; nape and 

 neck behind rufous brown, the lower part streaked with dusky; back 

 and scapulars as in the other; wing coverts plain brown ; quills the 

 same; outer web of the outer quill white, except just at the end; 

 throat to the breast pale brown ; middle of belly white ; sides barred 

 dusky and white ; under tail coverts pale rufous ; legs the same, 

 but paler. — Sent from Georgia by the name of Spotted Gallinule, 

 but is probably only a sexual difference of the Soree. In the A mer. 

 Orn. it is observed, that the females and young males of the first 

 season, have the throat white; the breast pale brown, and little or 

 no black on the head. The males may always be distinguished by 

 their ashy blue breasts, and black throats. 



32.— RUFOUS-BREASTED GALLINULE. 



Rallus Cayanensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 700. Gm. Lin. i. 718. 

 Le Rale de Cayenne, PI. enl. 368. 

 Le Kiolo, Bvf. viii. 164. 

 Cayenne Rail, Gen. Syn. v. 238. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill brown; crown of the head rufous; 

 rest of the upper parts olive brown ; the under, as far as the thighs, 



