LITTLE CRAKE. 543 



orbits light red, inclining to orange ; cheeks and forehead 

 dusky cinereous ; sides of the neck and throat pale cinereous ; 

 breast, belly, and thighs plain dark cinereous or slate-colour, 

 like the Water-Rail, without spots or markings of any kind ; 

 the back of the head deep olive-brown ; hind-neck lighter, 

 being of a yellowish-olive ; the feathers of the back have a 

 mixture of olive-brown and dusky black, the margins being 

 mostly of the former colour, with paler edges ; scapulars 

 dusky black, with broad olive margins ; coverts of the wings 

 olive-brown ; quills dusky, the outer webs edged with olive ; 

 rump and upper coverts of the tail very dark olive-brown, 

 with a mixture of dusky black ; the feathers of the tail are 

 of a deep dusky brown, the shafts paler and the lateral ones 

 margined with olive-yellow ; vent and under coverts of the 

 tail dusky cinereous, some of the feathers deeply margined 

 with sullied white ; sides behind the thighs olive, slightly 

 margined as the last ; the legs, toes, and knees olive." 



About the same time, as stated by Montagu, Mr. Plasted, 

 of Chelsea, procured another that was shot there on the 

 banks of the Thames. Several other individuals have since 

 been obtained in various parts of England ; near Arkrigg, in 

 Yorkshire ; near Cambridge, Manchester, Yarmouth, Shore- 

 ham, and Scarborough. It does not appear to have been 

 met with in Scotland or Ireland. 



