PUA) Bey. 
The length of the Water Rail is twelve inches, breadth fixteen: 
inches, weight four ounces. It frequents the rufhy and fheltered 
_ fides of rivulets and ponds, among which it can conceal itfelf from 
danger. It is avery fhy bird. Flies indifferently, but walks with 
great celerity, and has been feen to run on the furface of the water 
when there has been any weeds to bear it up *. 
The Egg is more than an inch and an half in length; of a pale 
yellowifh colour, marked with dufky fpots. 
* Latham, 
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