RALLID.E. 



GRALLATORES. 



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THE LANDRAIL, 

 OR Corn Crake, 



Crake GaUinide, 



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Corn Cruke, 



Gallinula crex, 

 Rallus ,, 



Gallinula ,, 

 Ortygometra ,, ,, , 



Crex 2)ratensis, Meadoiu 



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Gallinula cre.r. Landrail 



Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 119. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 138. 



Flem. Brit. An. p. 98. 



Seley, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 176. 



Jenyns, Brit. A'ert. p. 217. 



Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 



,, ,, Poule d'eau de Genet, Temm. Rlan. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 686. 



CnEX. Generic Characters, — Bill shorter than the head, thick at the base, 

 subcultrated, compressed ; the culmen gradually deflecting from the forehead 

 to the point of the bill ; lateral furrow of the upper mandible broad, and occu- 

 pying more than half its length ; angle of the under mandible bending up- 

 wards ; both mandibles of an equal length. Nostrils concave, lateral, linear, 

 ovoid, pierced in a membrane orxnipying the mandibular furrow in the middle 



