RED-BREASTED RAIL. 
213 
A SMALL species, only six inches and a half in 
length : beak black : eyelids and irides red : prevail- 
ing colour of the plumage above brownish-black j 
beneath dusky : legs reddish-brown. It varies in 
having the plumage more inclined to brown : the 
vent white, transversely barred with black lines : legs 
red. Inhabits Tongataboo, Otaheite, Tanna, and 
other islands in the great Pacific Ocean. 
RED-BREASTED RAIL. 
•f (Rallus ferrugineus.) 
Ra. nigricans subtus cinereus, collo pectoreque ferrugiizeis, hiypo- 
chondriis albo transversim lineatis, superciliis pallidis. 
Dusky Rail ashy beneath, with the neck and breast ferruginous, 
the flanks transversely striped Avith white, the eyebrows pale. 
Rallus ferrugineus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 716. Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 758. 
Red-breasted Rail. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 5, 234. 
This is in length nine inches : its beak is pale : 
the prevailing colour of its plumage on the upper 
parts of the body is dusky : over the eye is a white 
line : the hind parts and sides of the neck and the 
breast are ferruginous : the under parts of the body 
are ash-colour : the sides barred with narrow white 
lines : the legs yellow. Native place unknown. 
