BLUE-NECKED RAIL. 
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is dusky black, deepest on the head : the legs dusky 
brown or reddish. Inhabits the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
BLUE-NECKED RAIL. 
(Rallus ca?rulescens.) 
B.A.. Jusco-ruber, corpore suhtus albo, collo antice pectoreque pal- 
lide cceruleis, kypockondriis nigi'o albogue transversim lineatis. 
Brown-red Rail with the body beneath white, the neck in front 
and breast pale blue, the flanks transversely striped with black 
and white. 
Rallus cffirulescens. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 716. Lath, Ind. Orn. 
2. 758. 
Blue-necked Rail. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 5. 234. 
Not quite eight inches in length ; beak red ; the 
upper ridge and tip dusky : all the upper parts of the 
head, neck, and body reddish-brown : the chin, fore 
part of the neck, and breast pale blue ; from thence 
to the vent white, transversely streaked on the sides 
with black : vent white : legs red. Inhabits the Cape 
of Good Hope. 
