54 BAILLON'S CRAKE. 



BAILLON'S CRAKE. 



PLATE CLXXX. FIGURE II. 



Crex Baillonii, SELBY. 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 for- 

 warded by J. R. De Capel Wise, Esq., of Lincoln 

 College, Oxford. 



