LANDRAIL 



GRALLATORES. 



THE LANDRAIL, 



OR CORN CRAKE. 



Crex pratensis. 



Gallinula crex, Crake Gattinule, 



Rallus 



Gallinula Corn Crake, 



Ortygometra 



Crex pratensis, Meadow 



)> 



Gallinula crex, Landrail, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 119. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 138. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 98. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 176. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 217. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Poule d'eau de Genet, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 686. 



CKEX. Generic Characters. Bill shorter than the head, thick at the 

 base, subcultrated, compressed ; the culmen gradually deflecting from the 

 forehead to the point of the bill ; lateral furrow of the upper mandible 

 broad, and occupying more than half its length; angle of the under 

 mandible bending upwards ; both mandibles of an equal length. Nostrils 

 concave, lateral, linear, ovoid, pierced in a membrane occupying the 

 mandibular furrow in the middle of the bill. Wings armed with a spine, 

 and having the second and third quill-feather the longest. Legs strong, 



