GRALLATORES. 



RALLIDJE. 



THE SPOTTED CRAKE. 



Crex porzana. 



Oallinula porzana, Spotted Gallinule, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 117. 

 Rallus Water Hen, MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



Gallinula Gallinule, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. 



p. 140. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 99. 

 Crex Crake, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 179. 



JENYNS, Brit. An. p. 218. 



Zapornia GOULD., Birds of Europe. 



Gallinula Poule d'eau Marouette, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 688. 



THIS prettily-marked bird is, like the Landrail last 

 described, a summer visitor to this country, which Montagu 

 mentions having seen as early as the 14th of March, and 

 as late as the 23rd of October. Mr. Blyth has recorded 

 one instance in which a single specimen was seen by him- 

 self in the London market in the month of January, 1 834, 

 and I have notes of three that were killed in November, 



