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CREX PORZANA. THE SPOTTED CRAKE. 



SPOTTED BAIL, SPOTTED WATER-RAIL. SPOTTED WATER-HEN. SKILTY. 



Fig. 49. 



Eallus Porzana. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 262. 



Gallinula Porzana. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 772. 



Spotted Gallinule. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Poule-d'eau Marouette. Gallinula Porzana. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 688. 



Gallinula Porzana. Spotted Gallinule. Flem. Brit. Anim. 99. 



Spotted Crake. Crex Porzana. Selhy, Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 179. 



Crex Porzana. Spotted Crake. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 219. 



Ortygometra Porzana. Bonap. Comp. List, 53. 



Length nine inches; hill along the ridge nine-twelfths ; 

 upper parts olive-brown, with oblong black spots and numerous 

 white specks margined with black; those on the scapulars 

 being linear and longitudinal, on the inner secondaries trans- 

 verse; a greyish-blue band dotted with white over the eye; 

 the fore part and sides of the neck greyish-olive, spotted with 

 dull white; the sides of the body olivaceous, barred with white 

 and black; the axillar and lower wing-coverts barred with 

 black and white; the lower tail-coverts pale buff. 



Male. — This species differs in form from the last in no 

 appreciable degree, nor is its style of colouring so dissimilar 



