Pa Aa CoV. b. 
Cea iN UA sR xX. 
CRAKE GALLINULE. 
GRALLZ. 
Bill roundith. Tongue entire, flefhy. Thighs naked. Toes 
divided. 
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GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill thick at the bafe, floping towards the point: bafe of the upper 
mandible reaching far on the forehead, callous. Body compreffed. 
Wings fhort and concave. Tail fhort. ‘Toes divided to their 
origin. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Above, greyifh brown, middle of each feather black. Wings 
rufous brown. Beneath, reddifh white. 
Rauttus Crex. Lin. Sy/t. Nat. 
GALLINULA Crex: grifea pennis medio nigricantibus, alis rufo- 
ferrugineis, corpore fubtus albo-rufefcente. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 766. 1. 
G Porphyrio 
