Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The leading genus of Rallinæ, containing the true rails, water-rails, or marshhens, having the bill longer than the head, slender, compressed, and decurved, with long nasal groove and linear subbasal nostrils, and the coloration plain below, but with conspicuously banded flanks. See
rail .
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There is a species of thrush, with a grey breast, and a small bird of the flycatcher kind; a rail, with very short wings and no tail, which, on that account, we named _rallus ecaudatus_.
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