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THE WATER RAIL. 



and front of neck, breast and upper abdomen a more or less 

 dark pure leaden grey instead of the pale mingled grey and 

 whitey brown shown in the plate, and he will have in his mind's 

 eye a sufficiently correct picture of Rallns aquaticus* 



There ARE other species of true Water Rails in Africa, not- 

 ably one, ccerulescens, very closely allied to both our species ; 

 others again that I should thus class occur in Australia and 

 the Islands of the South Pacific, and, I may add (for I 

 doubt the Pardiralli being separable), all over America. 





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