370 RALLINA. 
four to eight in number; they are oval in shape, slightly com- 
pressed at one end; the texture of the shell is fine, but they have 
scarcely any gloss; the ground color is white, with a scarcely 
noticeable tinge of salmon-pink, which is very evanescent; the 
markings consist of streaks and spots of purplish or brownish- 
red, with occasional underlying blotches of pale purple. They 
measure 1:49 inches in length by 1:09 in breadth. . 
Porzana maruetta, Leach. 
969.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 722; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. V, p. 215; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 432; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 264. 
THE SPOTTED CRAKE. 
Length, 8°7 to 92; expanse, 145 to 157; wing, 43 to 48; 
tail, 1°85 to 2:1; tarsus, 1:21 to 1-48; bill from gape, 0°77 to 09; 
weight, 3 to 4 oz. 
The tip of the lower and the greater part of the upper mandi- 
ble dusky olive-green ; the basal two-thirds of lower mandible 
and a band at base of the upper one wax-yellow with an orange 
tinge on culmen, and ared spot at the base of the maxilla on 
either side ; irides reddish-brown; legs and feet generally bright 
olive-green. Thisis Mr. Hume’s description of the soft parts. 
Jerdon’s is much shorter, as follows: Bill greenish-yellow, orange, 
at the base; irides red-brown; legs and feet bright yellowish- 
reen. 
: Crown, back, scapulars, and rump, olive-brown, blotched with 
dusky, and all the feathers, except those of the head, elegantly 
spotted and streaked with white; forehead and eyestreak ash- 
grey, the latter speckled with white ; nape thickly spotted with 
black and white; cheeks cinereous, speckled with black; wing- 
coverts olive-brown, sparingly spotted with white; quills brown; 
throat ash-grey ; forepart of the neck and breast pale olivaceous, 
tinged with ashy-grey and spotted with white; belly and vent 
ashy-white ; flanks with transverse bars of white, black, and 
olivaceous-brown. 
The Spotted Crake occurs as a more or less common cold wea- 
ther visitant to all parts of the district. 
Porzana bailloni, Yzezil. 
910.—P. pygmea, Naum.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, 
p- 723; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. V, p. 215; 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 1X, p. 482; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 264; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 
Ibis, 1885, p. 135. 
BAILLON’S CRAKE. 
Length, 6°62 to 7°75; expanse, 10 to 11°75; wing, 3:12 to 37; 
tail, 1°75 to 2:2; tarsus, 1:05 to 1:25; bill from gape, 0°68 to 0°78 ; 
weight, 1] to 18 oz. 
