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THE, GALLINULES: 
(PorPHYRIO, Ca&:RULEUS; SMARAGDONOTUS; AND 
MARTINICUS.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Rejected by H. Saunders. 
Rejected by Seebohm. 
Of the Gallinules there are seven zmstances of occurrence 
since 1863: and others have been recorded. 
Mr. Saunders says “many of the individuals captured 
can clearly be proved to have escaped.” 
He does not tell us whether those thus recaptured 
had been fzz0ned or not. I have seen no record of the 
captured birds having been found to. be pinioned birds. 
When we consider that our Corn Crake has found its way 
to Greenland, as well as to the East Coast of North 
America, it is more easy to believe that ‘Cceruleus’ has 
reached us from Spain, ‘Smaragdonotus’ from Africa, and 
that ‘Martinicus’ has wandered from America to the 
south west coast of Ireland, than that so many of these 
valuable birds should be suffered to escape from their 
closed aviaries, as it may be presumed they are never 
turned into open enclosures zpinzoned. 
My eggs of ‘Martinicus’ are small and very refined 
editions of the Moorhen’s eggs. 
THE DEMOISELLE CRANE. 
(Grus_ VIRGO.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Rejected by H. Saunders. 
Admitted by Seebohm, 
who says that a fazy were seen in Orkney, of which one 
was shot. 
