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French ear conve^^ed the idea of 'chicken/ 

 or of the 3'oung of birds in general. (Is it 

 from 'pousser,'as iftheywereakind of budding 

 of bird ?) Everybody seems to agree in feeling 

 that this is a kind of wren among the dabchicks. 

 Bewick's name, ' Little Gallinule/ meaning of 

 course, if he knew it, the twice-over little Gal- 

 lina ; — and here again the question occurs to me 

 about its voice. Is it a twice-over little crow, 

 called a 'creak,' or anything like the Rail's 

 more provokingly continuous objurgation ? — 

 compare notes below on Rallus Aquaticus. I 

 find, with some alarm, in Buffon, that one 

 with a longer tail, the Cau-rale or Tail-rail of 

 Cayenne, is there called * Little Peacock of the 

 Roses ; ' but its cry is represented by the 

 liquid syllables ' Piolo,' while the black-spotted 

 one of the Society Islands — Magellan's 'Water- 

 quail ' — says ' Poo-a-nee,' and the Bidi-bidi of 

 Jamaica says ' Bidi-bidi.' 



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 150. TREPIDA STAGNARUM. LITTLE GREEK. 



Colymbus Minor, L. 

 Le Castagneux. F. 

 Deutchcl. T. 



