18 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
but returns home with them in the evening, He — 
fuffers himfelf to be handled by a grown up per~ 
fon, and feldom hurts any body. Sometimes he 
defends himfelf againft children. His cry is bela 
— loud, and id cag es 

Genus g. RALLUS. 
‘The beak is thickeft at the bafe, compreffed, thinner om - 
the upper part towards the rpolat Tightly bein both 
mandibles equal. 
The noftrils are oval. 
Four toes, divided to their origin. 
The 6 18 entree 
H E cau Gallinule, or Land Rail, is one 7 
of the Rallus Genus; his wings are of a 
reddifh iron colour. ey 
‘In moift meadows, from the time that the anal “ 
- is grown high, until harveit, a harfh cry of crake, _ 
crake, feems to come from the thickeft parts of - 
the grafs: it is a little like the noife that would 
be made by drawing the fingers along the teeth of 
aftrong comb, When we go.towards this noile, — 
it foems to go from us, and we hear it again, 
perhaps, 
