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OTAHEITE RAIL. 
(Rallus Tahitiensis.) 
Ra. cinereus, corpore supra ruhro-fusco, guld remigibusque latere 
exteriore albis, cauda nigra. 
Cinereous Rail with the body above red-brown, the neck and 
external quills white at the side, the tail black. 
Rallus Tahitiensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 717- Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 759. 
Otaheite Rail. Lath. Gen. Sijn. 5. 236. 
Length six inches : beak black : the head, neck, 
and all the under parts of the body dark ash-colour, 
palest on the chin : the upper parts and wing-coverts 
are deep red-brown : the quills are dusky edged with 
white : the edges of the wing and the first quill 
white : tail rounded and black : legs dusky yellow : 
claws black. Inhabits Otaheite and the Friendly 
Islands. 
BAllBARY RAILo 
(Rallus Barbaricus.) 
^A.Juscus, alis albo maculatis, tiropygio albo nigroque vario, 
crisso albo. 
Brown Rail with the wings spotted with white, the i*ump varied 
with black and white, the vent white. 
