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Barbarian ') do not usually require girdles either 

 for their kej^s or their manners, — it would 

 probably be thought irreverent by modern 

 clerg3^men ; but if the demoiselle were none 

 the better for it, she could certainly be none 

 the worse. 



149. ALLEGRETTA NYMPH^A. LTLY-OUZEL. 



^ Var. I (IX.A.) 



ALLEGRETTA NYMPH.EA, MACULATA. 

 SPOTTED ALLEGRET. 



Rallus Porzana. L. 



Poule d'Eau Maronette. F. 



Winkernell. T. 



Porzana. I. 



Zapornia Porzana. G. 



Crex Porzana. Y. 



Ortygometra Porzana. Steph. 



Gallinula Maculata et Punctata. Brehmen. 



Spotted Crake. B. 



The 'Winkerncir is I believe provincial 

 (Alsace) ; so, Girardina, Milanese, and Girar- 

 dine, Picard. — I can make nothing whatever 

 of any of these names ; — Porzana, Bolognese 

 and Venetian, might perhaps mean Piggy-bird ; 



