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SOREE RAIL. 
4 (Rallus carolinus.) 
Rx.Jiiscus subtiis pnllidiore, Jcicies mentum guldque nigris, joec- 
tore plumbeo, rostro Jlavo, pedibus virescentibus. 
Brown Rail beneath paler, with the face, chin, and throat black, 
the bi'east lead-coloured, the beak yellow, the legs greenish. 
Rallus carolinus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 263. Gmel. Sijst. Nat. 
1. 715. 
Gallinula Carolina. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 771. Sabine. Frank. 
Journ. App. 690. 
Porphyrio freti Hudsonis, Briss. Orn. 5. 541. 
Le Rale de Virginie. Buff. Ois. 8. 165. 
Little American Water Hen. isc/to. Birds, pi. 144. 
Common Rail. Wils. Amer. Orn. v\. p. 27.pl. xlviii.y. .3. 
Soree Gallinule. Penn, Arct. Zool. 2. 409. Gates. Carol, i. pi. 
70. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 262. 
Length not quite eight inches : beak yellow : 
irides red : the crown of the head and upper parts 
of the plumage are dull brown, spotted with black : 
the face, round the beak, the chin, and part of the 
neck before, black : the sides of the head, the neck, 
and the breast, bluish-ash colour : the belly and sides 
dusky white, the last transversely barred with black : 
the wing-coverts plain dull brown : the scapulars 
edged with white : the outer edge of the wing also 
white : the quills and tail are brown : legs dusky 
green. 
Inhabits Virginia in great abundance at certain 
seasons. In the autumnal migrations, they appear in 
