GALLINULE. 42.J 



from thence to the vent barred white and brown ; the wing coverts 

 brown, spotted with white: quills rufous brown, barred with black; 

 the secondaries spotted with white ; tail as the greater quills, with a 

 few spots of white; legs brown. 



Inhabits Jamaica, where it is called Bidi-bidi. 



34— MINUTE GALLINULE. 



Rallus minutus, Ind. Orn. ii. 761. Gm. Lin. i. 719. 

 Le Petit Rale de Cayenne, Buf. tail. 167. PI. enl. 847. 

 L'Ypecaha a sourcils blancs, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 377. 

 Little Rail, Gen.Syn.v. 239. 



THIS is in length five inches. Bill brown; the plumage on the 

 upper parts of the body the same ; darkest on the back and scapulars, 

 which are streaked with white ; the wing coverts black, spotted with 

 white ; sides of the body undulated black and white, as in our Rail ; 

 over each eye a white streak ; the under parts pale dusky yellow, 

 approaching to white on the chin and throat, and inclining to ash- 

 colour on the belly ; quills brown ; the tail barred black and white ; 

 legs pale yellow. — Inhabits Cayenne ; three only of these were seen 

 in Paraguay, and two of them young birds. 



A.— Little Rail, Gen. Syn. v. 240. Var. A. Ind. Orn. ii. 761. 23. /3. 



Length five inches and a half. Bill brown, under mandible 

 yellow ; plumage above brown ; back and wing coverts crossed with 

 several striated white bands ; the chin and fore part of the neck to 

 the breast dirty white ; the middle of the neck behind rufous ; the 

 sides of it ash-co!our ; belly, sides of the body, and vent, undulated 

 black and white ; quills and tail cinereous brown ; legs yellow. 



