. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . Vol. II. t B io BRITISH WATER CRAKE. SPOTTED RAIL, LESSER SPOTTED WATER RAIL, SKITTY,OR SPOTTED GALLINULE. [Rallus Porzana, Lin.—La Marouettct BufF.) This bird weighs above four ounces, and mea-fures nearly nine inches in length, and about fifteenin breadth. The bill is of a greenifh yellow, and notmore than three quarters of an inch long. The topof the head to the nape is dulky, flightly flreakedwith rufty brown; a brown and white mottled flripepaffes from the bill, over and behind the eyes j thecheeks and throat are of a fre
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . Vol. II. t B io BRITISH WATER CRAKE. SPOTTED RAIL, LESSER SPOTTED WATER RAIL, SKITTY,OR SPOTTED GALLINULE. [Rallus Porzana, Lin.—La Marouettct BufF.) This bird weighs above four ounces, and mea-fures nearly nine inches in length, and about fifteenin breadth. The bill is of a greenifh yellow, and notmore than three quarters of an inch long. The topof the head to the nape is dulky, flightly flreakedwith rufty brown; a brown and white mottled flripepaffes from the bill, over and behind the eyes j thecheeks and throat are of a freckled dull grey. Theneck and breaft are olive, marked with fmall whitefpots ; the fides dufky and olive, crofTed with bars of•white, and the under parts are a mixture of cinereous BRITISH BIRDS. II dirty white and yellow. The colour of the plumageof all the upper parts is dufky and olive brown,fpotted, edged, barred or ftreaked with white: on the wing coverts are furrounded with black,which gives them a ftudded or pearly appearance ;and the white bars and flreaks on the fc
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