SPOTTED CRAKE. 97 



GRALLA TORES. RALLID&. 



THE SPOTTED CRAKE. 



Crex porzana. 



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



Rallus 

 Gallinula 



n 



Crex 



n 



Zapornia 

 Gallinula 



Water Hen, MONTAGU, Omith. Diet. 



Gallinule, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, voL ii. p. 140. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 99. 



Crake, SELB v, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 1 79. 



JENYNS, Brit. An. p. 218. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi. 



Poule d'eau Marouette, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 688. 



THIS prettily marked bird is, like the Landrail last 

 described, a summer visiter to this country, which Mon- 

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

 and as late as the 23rd of October. Mr. Blyth has re- 

 corded one instance in which a single specimen was seen 

 by himself in the London market in the month of January 

 1834, and I have notes of three that were killed in 

 November 1841, one of them at Dagenham. Compared 



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