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BAILLON'S CRAKE. 



PLATE Cl.XXX. FIG. II. 



Crex Baillonii, .... Selbt. Jenyns. 



Gallinula Baillonii, .... Temminck. 



Zapornia Baillonii, . . . Stephens. 



Ortygometra Baillonii, . . . Shaw. 



The nest of this bird is made near the water's edge, 

 in the moist situations which the bird itself frequents, 

 among long grass, flags, or rushes, and is very difficult 

 to find. Its component parts are the stems and leaves 

 of water-plants, sedge, and grasses. 



The eggs are seven or eight to ten in number, and 

 of a regular oval form. Their colour is greyish white, 

 spotted with yellowish brown. The hen bird is said, 

 on leaving them, to add to the nest the concealment of 

 the surrounding and overhanging herbage. 



The figure on the plate is from a specimen forwarded 

 by J. R. De Capel Wise, Esq., Lincoln College, Oxford, 



