RALLIED. — GEUID^. 45 



256. Baillon's Cbake. Porzana hailloni (Vieillot). Rare. Spring Europe, 



to autumu. Has nested in Eastern counties. Africa, 



S. Asia. 

 Above dark reddish brown, marked with black ; cheeks, throat, and 



breast slaty blue ; flanks black, barred with white ; more white streaks 



and spots on back than in next species ; under wing-coverts mottled 



w^ith whitish. 



Yoiinr/. Chin and throat white ; breast and belly buff. Length 



7 inches. 



257. Little Crake, Porzana parva (Scopoli). Scarce. Spring to Europe, Persia, 

 autumn. Sind. 



Much like last, but larger, and with flanks slate-grey ; white spots only 

 on centre of back ; under wing- coverts uniform. Length 8 inches. 



258. Water-Rail. Rallus aquaticus, Linnaeus. Resident. 

 Bill reddish at base, longer than the head, and slender. 



Above brown, blotched with black; below slaty blue; axillai'ies, 

 belly, and flanks black, barred with white; legs and feet brown. 

 Length 10 inches. 



259. Moorhen, or Waterhen. Gallinula cliloropus (Linnoeus). 

 Resident. 



General colour above olive-brown, belou' greyish black ; scarlet frontal 

 plate in adult, greenish brown in the young ; legs and feet greenish. 

 Length 13 inches. 



260. Coot. Fullca atra, Linnaeus. Resident. 

 Front toes u'itJi rounded lobes. 



General colour slaty black ; secondaries tipped with white, forming 

 a wing-bar ; broad white shield on forehead ; legs bluish grey ; iris 

 crimson. Length 16 inches. 



Order ALECTOEIDES. Family GRUIDiE. 



261 . Crane. Grus communis, Bechstein. Rare straggler. Europe and 



General colour slate-grey ; tertials bluish black, formina: elons:ated : ^^^^' . 



, n J ' ' o o Wintering in 



Pll^mes. _ _ _ S.Europe, 



Adults with a red warty patch on crown. In young this is absent, N. Africa, 



and the grey feathers on back are mixed with brown. Length 48 inches. ^^^ S. Asia. 



262. Demoiselle Crane. Grtis vmio (Linnaeus). Recorded from c ^ 



- ^- -Europe, 



the Orkneys. N. Africa, and 



General colour bluish grey, sides of the head, throat, neck, the : ^^\^' . 



lengthened pointed feathers on upper breast, and quill-feathers black ; c. & S, Africa 



from each eye a tuft of lengthened white feathers extending backwards, and India. 

 Length 30 inches. 



