birds. 
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The head, and hind part of the neck are afh-color- 
ed, marked with oblong black breaks; the back 
and fcapulars are of a brownifh grey, edged with 
dirty white ; the coverts of the wings, and upper 
parts of the quil feathers dufky : the whole under 
GENUS VI 
SPECIES I. 
Water-rail, Bilcock, or Brook ouzel. 
JVil. orn. 314- 
Rail fyn. av. 1 13. 
Rallus aquaticus. Lin. fyft. \ 53. 
T H E water rail is a bird of a long {len¬ 
der body, with fhort concave wings. It 
delights lefs in flying than running ; 
which it does very fwiftly along the edges of 
brooks covered with bulhes : as it runs, every 
now and then flirts up its tail; and in flying 
hangs down its legs : actions it has in common 
with the water hen. 
Its weight is four ounces and a hah. The 
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leno-th to the end of the tail twelve inches : the 
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breadth fixteen. The bill is flender, flightly m- 
curvated, one inch three quarters long : the upper 
[Clafs II. 
fide of the body is white ; in fome flightly clouded 
with brown. The tail confifts of twelve (harp 
pointed feathers of a deep afh-colorj the legs are 
black. 
The RAIL. 
The Water Rail. 
Rallus aquaticus. Briffon av. V. 151. 
Tab. 12 . Fig. 1. 
Gallina cinerea. Gefner av. 515 ? 
colored : the irides red : the head, hind part of 
the neck, the back, and coverts of the wings and 
tail are black, edged with an olive brownj the 
bafe of the wins; is white : the throat, bread:, and 
upper part of the belly are alh-colored : the fides 
under the wings finely varied with black and white 
bars. The tail is very Ihort, confifts of twelve 
black feathers ; the ends of the two middle tipt 
with ruft-color. The legs are placed far behind, 
and are of a dufky fiefh color. The toes very long, 
and divided to their very origin ; though the feet 
are not webbed, it takes the water; but as Mr. 
Ray obferves, rather runs on it, than fwims. 
mandible black, edged with red ; the lower orange____ 
GENUS VII. WATER HENS. 
SPECIES I. The Small fpotted Water Hen. Plate L* 1. 
JVil. orn. fp. 8. p. 3x6. 
Rati fyn. av. 115. fp. 7. 
Gallinula ochra. Gefner av. 513. 
HIS fpecies is not very frequent in 
Great-Britain. It inhabites the fides of 
fmall ftreams, concealing itfelf among 
the bufties. Its length is nine inches : its breadth 
fifteen : its weight four ounces five drams. The 
head is brown, fpotted with black : the neck a 
Rallus aquat. minor, five maruetta. 
Brijfon av. V. 155, Tab. 13. Fig. 1. 
deep olive, fpotted with white $ from the bill be¬ 
yond the eyes is a broad grey bar : the feathers 
of the back are black next their fhafts, then olive 
colored, and edged with white : the fcapulars are 
olive, finely marked with two fmall white fpots on 
each web : the legs of a yellowifh green. 
SPECIES 
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