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: food, and neceflary for their young. Now thefe at 
can only be found in moift fituations, when 
Gallinules are grown up, corn and other grain. 
_feem to agree with them very well, they are fat- 
~tened with them, and are very delicate food. 
They are fometimes decoyed to the net like the 
Quail, by imitating their cry crake, crake, either by 
fawing with a knife upon a bone that is notched, 
_ or by means of a comb covered with paper. 
 Thefe birds are common in England; in the 
_ fummer they are frequent in Ireland, in the He- 
brides, and the Orkneys. They are always found 
in thofe places that are frequented by Quails : 
_ when they firft arrive in England they are lean, 
and weigh lefs than fix ounces; but before they a 
a go away they weigh eight ounces, and the fat 
comes through their fkin like ou when they.are 
killed. 
The Water Rail’s wings are “grey, with dufky 
“fpots ; the fides of the body are barred with black 
and white; the beak on the under. part is red- 
:.. dith, the feet are ereenith, the feathers very sly 
_’ and the irides are red, 

i ~The Water Rail runs by the fide of hak 
_waters as faft as the Land Rail runs along the 
grafs; he is as unwilling to leave the ground, | 
and to take to his wings; he gives the fowler 
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