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and front of neck, breast and upper abdomen a more or less
dark p„,-c leaden grey instead of the pale mingled grey and
vvh.tey brown shown in the plate, and he will have in his mind's
eye a sufficiently correct picture of Rallus equations
I H I K E ARE other species of true Water Rails in Africa notably
one, ccrulcscens, very closely allied to both our species •
others again that I should thus class occur in Australia and
the Islands of the South _ Pacific, and, I may add (for I
doubt the Panhralh being separable), all over America
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. R ^ r e r BY A, ACTON, CALCUTTA CE.NTRAL TRESS C O „ L D „ 5, COUNCIL HOVSE ITRUET
