. Bird notes . ;abdomen and tail black; wings reddish brown; legs carmine;bill yellow. A very effective colour arrangement indeed. It is absolutely tame, likes being petted, and willstand to be stroked just like a cat or dog. It eats had some difficulty in photographing it, as it would insiston trying to eat the camera lens. When I enter the aviarythe first thing in the morning, it greets me with loud clucks,not unlike those of a broody hen; at other times it points itsbeak at the ground and pretends not to see me, and on beingapproached puts its head between its legs, and walks slo
. Bird notes . ;abdomen and tail black; wings reddish brown; legs carmine;bill yellow. A very effective colour arrangement indeed. It is absolutely tame, likes being petted, and willstand to be stroked just like a cat or dog. It eats had some difficulty in photographing it, as it would insiston trying to eat the camera lens. When I enter the aviarythe first thing in the morning, it greets me with loud clucks,not unlike those of a broody hen; at other times it points itsbeak at the ground and pretends not to see me, and on beingapproached puts its head between its legs, and walks slowlyoff in a curious and stilted manner. It has norve of the stalk- no The Amazon Rail. ing habits of the American Clapper Rail {R. obsoletus) orof our owjii Corn-crake and Water Rail, but this may be dueto its extreme tameness. In this it resembles its little NorthAmerican cousin P. jamaiciensis, one of the least shy of allthe water birds. I have several times had these run over myleus when reclining in a boat,. The Amazon Kail. [Photo hv W. S/ton lii/i/v). My Rail spends a good deal of its time in the treesand bushes, and always chooses one of the highest to roost inat night. In this respect its habits are more like those ofof the Wood Ibises than of the true Rails. I have occasion-ally seen our English Rail well up in the top of a high bushnear the water, but I rather fancy that they must have been The Amazons Rail. Ill frightened there. Of course our Moorhen frequently builds insimilar spots. Like R. aquaticus it is a good swimmer, butdoes not*. I jthink, do so, from choice. As to its disposition with other birds, I have mydoubts whether it would be safe to trust it with small birds.
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