442 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
the fore part and side of the throat the same, 
streaked with brown; legs and toes greenish yellow ; 
claws brown. 
The eggs are pale reddish white, spotted and 
speckled with reddish brown. 
BarLuon’s Crake, Crex Baillonit. I include this 
rare little Crake in the list of Somersetshire birds 
on the authority of Yarrell, who says, “In Sep- 
tember, 1840, Francis Edwardes, Esq., of Brisling- 
ton, near Bristol, sent me word that an adult female 
of this species had been killed a short time before 
on some marshy ground near Weston-super-Mare, a 
small watering place on the Bristol channel.” 
This little Crake, although very rare, is probably 
resident in England, as its nest has been occa- 
sionally found, and it has more than once been 
killed in November, and one specimen has been 
obtained in January. 
The nest appears to be placed much in the same 
situation as that of the last-mentioned species. A 
nest found near Yarmouth, in 1866, was placed in a 
parcel of reeds growing in water about one foot in 
depth: it was very small, loosely made and com- 
posed of dry rushes.* 
This bird is said to feed on aquatic insects and 
their larve, small beetles, spiders and rarely on 
vegetable matter. 
* * Zoologist’ for 1866 (Second Series, p. 442), 
