Family RALLIDAE. 



Porzana pusillus (Pallas) — Baillon's Crake. 



(Plate 129, fig. a-c). 

 (Snouckaert: Avifauna Ncerlandica, p. 88. No. 206). 



Colour of surface of sfiell: 

 Colour of spots: 



Average dimensions: 



Average weight of shell: 



Texture of shell: 



Shape : 



Nest: 



Site of nest: 



Number of eggs: 

 Breeding season: 

 Duration of incubation: 

 Remark: 



greenish olive-yellow; oilily glossy. 



the marking is of a marbled character in an 

 olivc-greyish-brown tint. 



29.4 :■: 21.5 millimetres. 



0.52 gram. 



finely granulated. 



short-ovoidal. 



consists of thin grass-stalks. 



among rushes and reed-grasses, on broken 

 stalks, slightly above the water. 



7-8. 



end of May, June, July. 



about 21 days. 



Dr. Rey ') refers to the eggs depicted in 

 Baedeker -) under the name of this species 

 with the addition of : „(wohl G. porzana ?)"; 

 the pusitliis-cgg seems, however, really 

 to vary occasionally in the direction of 

 that of porzana, as appears from „Ootheca 

 Wolleyana" "). 



') 1. c. page 459. 



-) 1. c. Tab. 44, Fig. 3. 



2) Pait III, p. 45, § 3102. 



