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MADRAS imYNCIIiT:A. 
coudaries and tail are waved with black and grey, 
with three or four pale-rufous oval spots, edged with 
black : the primaries are alternately banded with 
rufous and black : the under parts of the body are 
white : the legs are dirty red. The Rallus Ben- 
galensis scarcely differs from the above : it has the 
crown white : the upper part of the back, the sca- 
pulars and wing-coverts of a greenish cast : the lower 
part of the back and rump white : the primaries 
purple and the secondaries green: in other respects 
it does not materially differ from the first mentioned. 
This species is found at Madagascar and Bengal. 
MADRAS RHYNCH^A. 
(Rhynchoea ? maderaspatana.) 
Rh ? nigricante fulvoque varia subtus alba, capite fosciis tribus, 
dorso duabus Jiisco-nigricantibus, pectoris unica nigra. 
Rhyncliaea varied with dusky and fulvous, beneath white, with 
three fasciae on the head^ and tw > on the back of a dusky- 
brown, and one on the breast black. 
Rhynchaea orientalis. Linn. Trans. -iixn. 193. 
Scolopax maderaspatana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 667. Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. 717. 
Gallinago maderaspatana. Briss. Orn. 5. 308. 
La Becassine de Madras. Buff. Ois. 7. 496. 
Partridge Snijie. Raii. Syn. 193. j)/. \ .f. 2. 
Madras Snipe. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 141. 10. 
The native place of this bird is Madras, and it 
differs from the rest of the species of this genus in 
