23 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
are only found in Virginia, about fix weeks from 
_ the latter end of September; at that time they 
frequemt the marfhes in great numbers : they feed . | 
on the wild oats; when they firft come they are 
very lean, but they foon become fo fat as not to 
be able to fly. In this ftate they fit upon the 
reeds; the Indians go out in canoes, and kil 
them with their paddles. 
The inhabitants of Virginia are fo fond of 
thefe birds, that they eat them at breakfaft, din- 
ner, and fupper. 
There is in Dufky Bay, in New Zealand, a 
Rail called the Troglodyte Rail ; it is very much 
like our common fowl, it fcratches the ground 
like them, and its wings are fo fhort, that it can- 
not well fy. It never takes the water, but is 
found on the fea-beach and the fkirts of woods, 
where it picks up worms. 
Thefe Rails are often found at the roots of 
trees; they run into holes and bufhes to hide 
themfelves ; they make a noife a little before rain, 
and are fo tame, that they fuffer themfelves to 
be beaten down with a ftick. 
In South America, at Guiana, and Cayenne, 
there is a Rail called the Kiolo, from the noife it 
makes, In the day the Kiolos are fcattered 
among the bufhes, but in the evening, at fun-fet, 
; they 

