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CRAKE, BAILLON’S. 
GatiinvLa Bartionit, Temm. 
This species is very similar in appearance and 
habits to the Spotted Crake, with this difference 
only that it is much smaller and not so much 
spotted. It is found in this country, the first speci- 
men of which we have any record having been 
caught upon the ice during the winter of 1823, 
about nine miles south of Cambridge. Since that 
time several others have been taken in the fens of 
the Eastern Counties. It is a well known species 
on the opposite coast of France, where it breeds in 
the marshes, forming its nest of aquatic plants 
among rushes. ‘The female lays seven or eight 
egos, of an oval shape, of a light olive brown 
colour, blotched with brown of a darker hue. 
Examples have also been brought from Italy, 
Switzerland, Africa, and even from Japan, which 
do not differ in appearance from those obtained in 
England. 
CRAK Et abana ais. 
GALLINULA PUSILLA, Zemm. 
Though neither this species nor the preceding 
has been known to breed in this country, both have 
been occasionally found in it. No doubt the chief 
cause of their being so rarely obtained, is their 
being so minute in size for an aquatic bird; their 
