SPOTTED CRAKE. 



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GUALLATORES. 



UALUDjE. 



THE SPOTTED CRAKE. 



Gallinula porzana, Spotted Gallunile, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 117. 



Rallus 

 Gallinula 



If 

 Crex 



Zapornia 

 Gallinula 



Water Hen, Mont. Ornitli. Diet. 



Galtinule, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 140. 



,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 99. 



Crake, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 179. 



,, Jenyns, Brit. An. p. 218. 



,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi. 



Poule d^eau Marouette, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 688. 



This prettily marked bird is, like the Landrail last de- 

 scribed, a summer visiter to this country, which Montagu 

 mentions having seen as early as the 14th of March, and as 

 late as the 23rd of October. Mr. Blyth has recorded one 

 instance in "which a single specimen was seen by himself in 

 the London market in the month of January 1834. Com- 

 pared with the Landrail, however, this Spotted Rail is much 

 less numerous as a species, and more aqviatic in its habits ; 

 frequenting the sides of streams and lakes which are covered 



