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Excerpt from Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, Vol. 7 of 8
Ral'lidm Mod. Lat., named from Ral ltw, the ty ical genus. From t e Fr. Mile, rail. Sec rail]: a family of irds includin the rails and gallinules. The neck is moderately elongatei the head rather small; the bill more or less elongated, compressed, and With the culmen advancing to a greater or less extent upon the forehead and decurved to ward the apex; the nostrils are lateral, rather inferior, and in a membranous groove; the Wings moderate and rounded, rather short; the tail rather short, inclined upward, and rounded; the tarsi rather lens and slender, and in front covered with transverse scutcl in; the toes three in front, and well developed, the hinder comparatively short and rather elevated; the claws curved and sharp.
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