. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. ',J. If < 1â t.)âHulliin n«rrliiir. *>'/'. cdH)/). Sp r/til. liiL'.â I'crdix hiuhonicaf Lath. /»(/. ii., p. 6.', 8p. 4\.â Le ll/lle rtirii A iiorijf. roHsse, Nouv. DM. xviii., p. 566.â YHliw- hrauteil Gnllinitle, Latii. fi/n. m . p. 262, Sp. l.'!. Id. Orn. Hint, n,, p. 419, Sp. .'10. I' Arct. /iiid. 11., Sp. '110.â (Juailf Latu. lad. Urn. ISuppl. p. 224. Id. (int. llhl. vm. p. .KiO, Sp. 72. TnK gciniH Kail, iind that of tho (iallimilcs, nro so close
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. ',J. If < 1â t.)âHulliin n«rrliiir. *>'/'. cdH)/). Sp r/til. liiL'.â I'crdix hiuhonicaf Lath. /»(/. ii., p. 6.', 8p. 4\.â Le ll/lle rtirii A iiorijf. roHsse, Nouv. DM. xviii., p. 566.â YHliw- hrauteil Gnllinitle, Latii. fi/n. m . p. 262, Sp. l.'!. Id. Orn. Hint, n,, p. 419, Sp. .'10. I' Arct. /iiid. 11., Sp. '110.â (Juailf Latu. lad. Urn. ISuppl. p. 224. Id. (int. llhl. vm. p. .KiO, Sp. 72. TnK gciniH Kail, iind that of tho (iallimilcs, nro so closely related, that xmxuy authors have either eoiifouiKleil them together, or hy their various detiiiitions and ;4 made tliem to interfere witli each other. Tliii.'*, for Latham, Temminck, and others, tho Short-hilled Rails, among which ranks the present species, art? (Jallinules, although they want that obvious ehara(;ter u|)oii whiidi Liniid founded Ids natural, though too much extended group FuUen, and which we also, with Vieillot and others, adopt as its best representative eharaeter, namely, tho naked frontal clypcus. The genus Kail is therefore very comprehensive and numerous in species, which are spread over all the glolie, and uuiy with propriety he s, tlit^ (irst of which will contain tho Long-hilled species, under the more restricted name of Rttllux, containing tho true linlli of all authors, whilst the name CV<'r, or rather J'orzana, or Otii/f/onit'tra, may he consecrated to the Short-hilled , im|)roperly ranked hy authors with the (Jalli- nules. I say rather J'orzana or Oiti/</omctra, because the name Crex might he reserved for a secondary group, instituted for the Corn-crake alone {IhtUun crex, Ti.) an Kumpean hinl, whose iiri/-ltin« and tarsus. This is, however, the result of extraordinary pains. In the Land Crake of Kurojte (and probably in a few ariiilogous foreign species) the middle toe without the nail is shorter than th
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