AMERICAN WATER-RAIL, 
Water-Rail ; as we do not think, v/ith BufFon 
that it is exactly what he calls the Kiolo, o 
Rallus Cayennensis of the Linnasan system. 
This American W ater-Rail, which we hav 
both named and figured after Edwards, is tliu 
described by that celebrated ornithologist — 
The bill is bowed a little downward ; an 
channelled on the sides of the upper mandibh 
5n which channels the nostrils are placed : it 
of a dusky colour, but reddish at the base ( 
the lower mandible. On the forehead, tl 
base of tlie bill forms a little baldness, as i 
the Coot and Moor-Hen. The top of tl 
head is black, or dusky ; the sides of it are asl 
coloured. Above each eye, and on the throa 
it is white. The upper part of the neck, ai 
the back, have feathers which are black 
their middles and brown on ihdv bordei 
The fore-part of the neck,, and the breast, a 
of a brownish orange-colour. The covei 
feathers of the wings are of a reddish brow 
The quills next the back, and the tail-feathjei 
are dusky, with brown tips, like the fcathe 
of the back. The greater quills are who 
dusk 
