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and barred with white ; thighs, spotted with a similar colour ; 

 hind-neck, back, and wings, olive-brown, the back being 

 broadly streaked with black and marked along the middle 

 line with a few white spots ; primaries, entirely brown, the 

 outer web of the first thus differing from that of Baillon's 

 Crake ; tail-feathers and inner secondaries have dark centres 

 and broad greenish-brown margins. 



Adult female nuptial. Top of head, back and sides 

 of neck, light brown ; streak over the eye, grey ; chin and 

 throat, white ; front of neck, breast, and abdomen, rich 

 tawny-buff; sides and under tail-coverts, ash-grey, thinly 

 barred with white. 



Adult winter, male and female. Bears a general resem- 

 blance to the respective nuptial plumage. 



Immature, male and female. Breast and abdomen, 

 pale buff, almost white ; flanks more streaked than in 

 the adult. 



Nestling. Glossy-black with a greenish tinge. 



BEAK. Ked at base ; point, green. 



FEET. Green. 



IEIDES. Bed. 



AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 



TOTAL LENGTH 8 in. 



WING 4-2 



BEAK 0%5 



TAKSO-METATAESUS 1*4 



EGG I'l x *85 in. 



BAILLON'S CRAKE. Porzana bailloni (Vieillot). 



Coloured Figures. Gould, ' Birds of Great Britain,' vol. iv, pi. 

 89 ; Dresser, ' Birds of Europe,' vol. vii, pi. 497 ; Lilford, 

 * Coloured Figures,' vol. iv, pi. 59. 



Baillon's Crake (which more strictly speaking might be 

 called the Little Crake, for it is smaller than the last 

 species) is a rare and an uncertain visitor, chiefly in spring 

 and autumn. 1 But there is stronger evidence, than in the 



1 Mr. Harting is of the opinion that Baillon's Crake is a local resident 

 in England, the bird having been procured in nearly every month of 

 the year. Mr. Saunders, on the other hand, considers that there is no 



