LITTLE CRAKE. 



OLIVACEOUS CRAKE. LITTLE GALLINULE. DWARF RAIL. 



PLATE CLXXX. FIO. I. 



Crex pusiHa, 

 Gallinula minuta, 

 GaUinula pusilla, 

 Zapornia pusilla, 

 Hallus putillu-s, 



SELBT. JENTJTS. 

 MOXTAGU. BEWICK. 

 FLEMING. 

 GOULD. 



XIDIFICATIOX commences at the end of May or beginning of June. 



The nest, of considerable size, is placed either in a tuft of rushes 

 or upon the water itself, supported in the latter case on the stalks of 

 rushes or other aquatic plants bent down and intermingled with grass, 

 the adjoining materials of the like kind being drawn in a hood-like 

 manner over it. 



The eggs are from seven or eight to ten in number, smooth, without 

 much polish, and of a light olive brown, or yellowish or greenish white 

 colour, spotted with darker brown. 



The young run out of the nest almost directly after being hatched. 



The figure on the plate is from an egg brought from Hungary, and 

 now in the possession of the Rev. H. B. Tristram, Perpetual Curate of 

 Castle Eden. 



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