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CAYENNE R.
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V ar. A.
Description.
P l a c e .
Le Kiolo, Biff. Oif. \iii. p, 164.
Le Rafle de Cayenne, PI. Enl. 368.
Lev. Muf
JF^ENGTH near eight inches. The bill brown: the crown
of the head is rufous : from thence all the upper parts are
olive brown : beneath rufous as far as the thighs, which are the
fame as the upper part: the vent pale: from the gape a broad
blackilh ftreak paffing through the eyes, and beneath them : the
quills are black: the legs reddiih brown.
Le Râle à ventre roux de Cayenne, PL Enl. 753.
H I S is only feven inches in length : and the upper parts are
of a deeper brown : the crown chefiiut j the chin and vent
rufous white ; and the broad ftreak through the eye is blue grey :
the under parts are rufous, but much deeper than in the laft
bird, and that colour paffes on to the vent and thighs j but the
in (ides, and the lower parts of the laft, are dulky. It is probable
that this differs from the other only in fex.
Both thefe inhabit Cayenne. I have met with one of the laft
meafuring very little more than fix inches : they therefore differ
much as to fize.
Thefe birds are common alfo at Guiana, where they are known
by the name of Kiolo ; arifing, no doubt, from their cry, which
is not unlike that word. Thefe birds may be heard making a
noife, or rather calling, in the evening juft at fun-fet, calling one
another together, in order to pafs the night; being difperfed
fingly among the thick bulhes in the day-time. They make the
neft
neft between the forks of the fhrubs, near the ground, of a reddifh
kind of plant, making a cover at the top 'impenetrable' to the rain.
Le Rale de la Jamaique, Brif, Or», vi. Suppl. p. 140.
- .......-Bidi-Bidi, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 166.
Leaft Water Hen, Edw. pi. 278.— Brown Jam. p. 479.
g I Z E fmall: length fix inches. The bill is black, with the
bafe reddifh ; head and throat black : the upper parts of. the
head, neck, and back, rufops brown, croffed with blackilh ftreaks:
fore part of the neck and breaft blueifh afh-colour: belly,
fides, and thighs, barred white and brown : wing coverts brown,
fpotted with white : quills rufous brown, barred with black ; the
fecondaries fpotted with white: tail as the greater quills, marked
with a few fpots of white : legs brown.
Inhabits Jamaica, where it is called Bidi-Bidi,
Le petit Râle de Cayenne, Buf, Oif. viii. pi 167.— PL Enl. 847.
'jP H I S is the fmalleft of its race yet known : length five inches.
The bill is brown : the upper parts of the body the fame ;
darkeft on the back and fcapulars, which are ftreaked with white :
the wing coverts black, fpotted with white : fides of the body
undulated black and white, as in our Rail: over the eye a ftreak
of white: the under parts are pale dulky yellow, almoft white on
the chin and throat, and verging to alh-colour on the belly :
quills brown : tail barred black and white : legs pale yellow.
Inhabits Cayenne.
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JAMAICA R„
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LITTLE R-
Description.