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BLACK R*~
Description.
O I Z E of.the Spotted Gallinule: length nine inches. Bill yellow
^ atthebafe; the tip brown: general colour of the plumage
dufky black, deepeft on the head: legs brown; in fome birds
Place.
red.
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and other parts o f Africa.
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SANDWICH R.
Description.
C I Z E fmall. Bill dufky afh-colour: general colour o f the
plumage pale ferruginous; the feathers on the upper parts
darkeft in the middle: tail fhort, hid by the upper coverts:
Place.
legs dufky flefh-colour.
Inhabits Sandwich IJles. Was alfo found on the ifland of T anna*
but the plumage is darker on tlie upper parts; and the bill
and legs yellowifh. Sir Jofeph Banks.
OTAHEITE R.
Description.
T E N G T H fix inches. Bill three quarters of an inch, black :
the head, neck, and all the under parts of the body, dark
afh-colour j pafeft on the chin: the upper parts, and wing coverts,
deep red brown : quills dufky, edged with white : edge
of the wing, and the firft quill feather, white : tail an inch and
a half long, rounded in fhape, and black: legs dufky yellow :
Place.
claws black.
Inhabits Otaheite, and the Friendly IJles. Sir Jofeph Banks.
• In Coni’s laft Voy. i. p. 151. mention it made of a fandy-coloured Plovtr
at New Zialatni: perhaps this fpecies ?
-v Lev. Mu/
T E N G T H fix inches. Bill fcarcely one inch; colour dufky
black ; edges of the mandibles yellowifh : all the upper
parts of the plumage deep brown, with a ferruginous tinge, and
ftreaked with black: beneath ferruginous brown : legs two inches
long, red brown.
Inhabits the Sandwich IJlands.
Le Râle à long bec de Cayenne, Jtuf. Oif. viii. p. 163.— Pi. Enl. 849.
T A R G E R than our Rail: length nine inches and a half. Bill
long in proportion, and rather flout 5 the colour of it ferruginous,
with a dufky point : the upper parts of the body of a
faint alh-colour, each feather dafhed with a dufky ftreak down
the middle : the chin is nearly white: from thence all the under
parts are of a ferruginous white, ftriated on the fides of the body
as in our Rail: legs pale ftraw-colour.
Inhabits Cayenne.
Le Râle tacheté de Cayenne, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 165.— PI. Enl. 775.
T E N G T H eleven inches. Bill one inch and a half, and yellowifh
: the back part of the head is dufky : the chin white :
the reft of the head, neck, and body, fpotted irregularly with
black and white, and ftreaked tranfverfely on the fides of the
body, as in the common Rail: the wing coverts are brown dafhed
with white ; the reft of the wing brown : tail dufky, fome of the
middle feathers edged with white : legs yellow.
Inhabits Cayenne.
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DUSKY R.
D e sc ri p tion.
Place.
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Description.
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Description*