CRAKE. GRALLATORES CREX. 179 



PLATE 30 *. Represent a male and female of the natural 

 size. 



Bill brown. Eyes yellowish-brown. Over the eyes, and General 

 down the sides of the neck is a streak of ash-grey. Chin 

 and throat yellowish-white, tinged with ash-grey. Breast 

 pale yellowish-brown, tinged with ash-grey. Belly red- 

 dish-white. Flanks and under tail-coverts pale reddish- 

 brown, barred with reddish- white. Crown of the head 

 and upper parts of the body deep liver .brown, each 

 feather having a broad margin of pale-yellowish-brown, 

 slightly tinged with oil-green. Wing-coverts pale orange- 

 coloured brown. Quills hair-brown, tinged with reddish- 

 brown. Legs yellowish-brown, with a tinge of grey. 



SPOTTED CRAKE. 



CREX PORZANA, Bechst. 

 PLATE XXX. FIGS. 1. and 2. 



Rallus Porzana, Linn. Syst. 1. 262. 3 Gmel Syst. 1. 712. 



Gallinula Porzana, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 772. sp. 19 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 



2. 688 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 99. sp. 131. 

 Ortygometra Porzana, Steph. Shaw's ZooiL 12. 223. 

 Rallus aquaticus minor, sive Maruetta, Briss. Orn. 5. 155. pi. 13. 1. 

 Gallinula ochra Gesneri, Rail Syn. 115 Will. (AngL) 316. 

 Rale d'Eau ou la Maronette, Buff. Ois. 8. 157 7d pi. EnL 751. 

 Poule d'Eau Maronette, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 688. 

 Punkliertes Rhorhuhn, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 478 Meyer, Tasschenb. 



Deut. 2. 412. 

 Spotted gallinule, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 486. No. 215 Arct. Zool. Sup. 69. 



Lalh. Syn. 5. 264. 18 Wall. Syn. 2. pi. 172 Mont. Ornith. Diet. 1. 



and Supp Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 99. sp. 131. 

 Water Crake, BewicWs Br. Birds, 2. t. p. 10. 

 Spotted Crake, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 223. 

 Skitty, Rennie's ed. of Mont. p. 462. 



PROVINCIAL Spotted Rail, Spotted Water-Rail, Spotted Water-Hen. 



THIS prettily marked small species of Crake (being about Periodical 

 one-third less than the preceding one) is one of our earliest vlsltant 

 birds of passage in arrival, and among the latest in taking 

 its departure, as MONTAGU mentions having met with it in 



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