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VARIEGATED RAIL. 
cinereous ; the shafts of each feather being dashed 
witli dusky ; the chin is nearly white : the rest of 
the under parts of the body are rusty- white, the sides 
of the body being striated as in the Common Rail : 
legs pale straw-colour. Inhabits Cayenne. 
VARIEGATED RAIL. 
4- (Rallus variegatus.) 
Ra. nigro alboque maciilatim variegatus, remigihis caudaquc 
Jiiscis, tectricihua alarum Jiiscis albo striatis, rostro J'ulvo, j)e- 
dibus jlavis. 
Rail variegated and spotted with black and white, the quills and 
tail brown, the wiug-coverts brown striped with white, the beak 
fulvous, the legs yellow. 
Rallus variegatus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 718. Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 760. 
Le Rale tachete de Cayenne. Buff. Ois. 8. 1 65 . Buff. PI. EnL 
775. 
Variegated Rail, Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 237. 
Inhabits Cayenne : its length is eleven inches : 
its beak is yellowish : the back part of the head dusky : 
the rest of the head, neck, and body are irregularly 
spotted with black and white, the sides of the latter 
being streaked transversely as in the Common Rail : 
the wing-coverts are brown dashed with white : the 
wings brown : chin white : tail dusky, some of the 
middle feathers edged with white : legs yellow. 
