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BAILLON'S CEAKE. 



PLATE CLXXX. FIG. II. 



Crex Baillonii, SELBT. JENYNS. 



Gallinula Baillonii, TEMMINCK. 



Zapornia Baillonii, STEPHENS. 



Ortygometra Baillonii, SHAW. 



THE nest of this bird is made near the water's edge, in the moist 

 situations which the bird itself frequents, among long grass, flags, or 

 rushes, and is very difficult to find. Its component parts are the stems 

 and leaves of water-plants, sedge, and grasses. 



The eggs are seven or eight to ten in number, and of a regular oval 

 form. Their colour is greyish white, spotted with yellowish brown. 

 The hen bird is said, on leaving them, to add to the nest the con- 

 cealment of the surrounding and overhanging herbage. 



The figure on the plate is from a specimen forwarded by J. R. De 

 Capel Wise, Esq., of Lincoln College. Oxford. 



