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D escription.
Place,
22.
BARB ARY R.
D escription.
Pi. ace«
Lev» Mu/%
T E N G T H five inches and a half. Bill brown; under mandible
yellow : upper parts of the plumage brown, marked
with many ftriated bands of white on the back and wing coverts •
the chin and fore part of the neck, as far as the breafi, dirty
white : the middle of the neck behind rufous ; fides or it alh-
colour : belly, fides of the body, and vent, undulated black and
white : quills' and tail cinereous brown ; legs yellow.
This lalt I received from 'Jamaica; and have alfo feen the fame
from Cayenne. It is clearly a mere variety or fexual difference
from the little Rail; and we have our fufpicion alfo, that it does
not effentially differ from the Jamaica fpecies.
Barbary Water Hen, Shanxi's Trav. p. 255.
T ESS than a Plover. Bill an inch and a half long, and black :
belly and breaft dark brown, or rufty : back the famé, but
much darker : wings fpotted with white : rump variegated above
with black and white ftreaks, below white : legs dark brown.
Inhabits Barbary. From the length of bill, in proportion to
the fize of the bird, and from no barenefs of the forehead being
mentioned, I fuTpeft this rather to belong to the genus under
which it is now placed, than to that of the Gallinule referred to
by the author.