. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . hat appropriate toeach of these families, being composed of wonns, mollusca,small Crustacea, insects, and seeds of reeds and other are capable of swimming, and even of diving onoccasion. All the species are more or less aquatic, and it is amongsedges or reeds that they form their large bulky nest, com-posed chiefly of glass. The eggs
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . hat appropriate toeach of these families, being composed of wonns, mollusca,small Crustacea, insects, and seeds of reeds and other are capable of swimming, and even of diving onoccasion. All the species are more or less aquatic, and it is amongsedges or reeds that they form their large bulky nest, com-posed chiefly of glass. The eggs are four or five, or some-times more. The young run about, swim, and dive Avhile yetcovered with down, and when fledged differ little from theold birds. The females are similar to the males. The Rails are sepaiated fiom the Crakes and Gallinules 520 RALLUS. KAIL. by no precise line, for the principal distinction between thesegenera lies merely in the length of the bill, ^vhich in the formeris longer than the head, and in the latter shorter. The Galli-nules in like manner pass into the genus Porphyrio, and thelatter into Fulica. Only one species of Rail occurs in Britain. 521 RALLUS AQUATICUS. THE WATER RAIL. HILCOCK. lUNNKR. SKIT. Fio. 47. Rallus aquaticus. Linn. Sys. Nat. I. aquations. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. , or Water-Rail. Mont. Om. deau. Rallus aquations. Tenim. Man. dOm. II. aquaticus. Water Rail. Flem. Brit, Anim. Rail. Rallus aquaticus. Selb. Illustr. II. aquaticus. Water Rail. Jen. Brit. Vert, An. aquaticus. Bonap. Comp. List, 53. Plumage above olivaceous, streaked with brownish-black ;fore neck and breast dull greyish-blue ; sides and haunchesbarred with hroionish-black and white ; abdome7i pale reddish-yelloio ; proximal lower tail-coverts white, the rest banded loithblack. Male.—The Rail is about the size of the Corn Crake, andnearly of the same form, its body extremely compressed,
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