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fore part of the neck is streaked perpendicularly, and 
the back part, and all round the bottom, transversely: 
the upper part of the body and wings delicately mixed 
and waved with bluish-grey, brown, pale-rufous, and 
black : breast and under-parts white : quills dusky, 
marked with oval cream-coloured spots : tail blue- 
grey and dusky mixed, with three or four roundish 
cream-coloured spots on each feather, surrounded with 
black : legs grey. Inhabits China." 
MADAGASCAR RHYNCH^A. 
(Rhynchaea Madagascariensis.) 
Rh. ciyiereo, griseo, nigroque undiilata, capite collogue rujis. 
Rhyncheea undulated with cinereous^ grey, and black, with the 
head and neck rufous. 
Scolopax CapensiSj y. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 717. 
Becassine de Madagascar. Bt{f. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 495. Btcff". 
PI. Enl. 922. 
Rallus Bengalensis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 263. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 
1. 715. var. 
Totanus Bengalensis. Briss. Orn. 5. 209. "oar. 
Le Chevalier vert. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 520. mr. 
Bengal Water Rail. Albin. Birds, 3. pi. 90. 
Cape Snipe, var. C. and D. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 139. and 140. 
In length ten inches : its beak is dusky-red : round 
the eye white, passing a trifle down the neck on 
each side ; eyebrows black ; the rest of the head and 
the neck rufous : the chin white : the lower part 
of the neck and back undulated with black and 
grey ; and the wing-coverts with cinereous : the se- 
