PACIFIC RAIL. 
215 
Rallus Barbaricus. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 719. Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 760. 
Barbary Rail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 240. 
Less than a Plover : beak black : belly and breast 
dark brown, or ferruginous : back the same, but 
darker : wings spotted with white : rump variegated 
above with black and white streaks, beneath white : 
legs dark brown. Inhabits Barbary. 
PACIFIC RAIL. 
(Rallus Pacificus.) 
Ra. niger albo punciatus, ahs J'asciatis, corpore subtus albido, 
capite Jiisco, pectore cinereo-ccerulescente. 
Black Rail dotted with white^ the wings fasciated^ the body be- 
neath whitish, the head brown, the breast ashy-blue. 
Rallus Pacificus. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 717. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
758. 
Pacific Rail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 235. 
Size of the Common Rail : beak blood-red, with 
a pale brown tip : irides red : over the eyes a whitish 
streak : head brown : nape ferruginous : back and 
rump black, sparingly sprinkled with small white 
spots : wings short, deep black, variegated with in- 
terrupted white fasciae : quills brown : throat white ; 
breast bluish-ash colour : belly, sides, and vent whitish : 
tail very short, black, spotted with white : legs flesh- 
colour : claws pale. Inhabits Otaheitc and the ad- 
jacent islands. 
