PLATE CXIV. 
The Land Rail, 
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I N this Plate is given the full fize. In England it is very rarely to be feen ; but in Ireland they 
are much more abundant. The few we have are generally to be met with in the ftanding corn, or 
long grafs. Their food is fnails, worms, and other reptiles. They are efteemed a delicious difli ; 
which fuppofition arifes more from its being a fcarce bird than from the flavour of its fledi, as I 
think we have many birds which excel them far in flavour. They have an awkward {talking gait, 
and are not a bird much for flying. 
