2o6 love's meinie. 



and Ortygometra Porzana would then mean, 

 in serious English, the * Quail-sized Pig-bird.' 

 I am sorry not to be able to do better as 

 Interpreter for my scientific friends. 



IX. B. 



ALLEGRETTA NYMPH^A, STELLARIS. 

 STARRY ALLEGRET. 



Not separated by Linnaeus, or Buffon, or 

 Bewick, nor by popular German or French 

 names, from the Marouette. 



Crex Baillonii, Baillon's Crake. Y. 



Porzana Pygmaea. G. 



Gallinula Stellaris. Temminck. 



IX.c. 



ALLEGRETTA NYMPH^A, MINUTA. TINY 

 ALLEGRET. 



Porzana Minuta, Olivaceous Crake. G. 

 Crex Pusilla, Little Crake. Y. 

 Poule d'Eau Poussin. Temminck. 

 Little Gallinule. B. 



It never occurred to me, when I was writ- 

 ing of classical landscape, that * Poussin ' to a 



