CRAKE. GRALLATORES CREX. 179 
Prarte 30 *. Represent a male and female of the natural 
size. 
Bill brown. Eyes yellowish-brown. Over the eyes, and 
down the sides of the neck is a streak of ash-grey. Chin 
and throat yellowish-white, tinged with ash-grey. Breast 
pale yellowish-brown, tinged with ash-grey. Belly red- 
dish-white. Flanks and under tail-coverts pale reddish- 
brown, barred with reddish-white. Crown of the head 
and upper parts of the body deep liver-brown, each 
feather having a broad margin of pale-yellowish-brown, 
slightly tinged with oil-green. Wing-coverts pale orange- 
coloured brown. Quills hair-brown, tinged with reddish- 
brown. Legs yellowish-brown, with a tinge of grey. 
SPOTTED CRAKE. 
Crex Porzana, Bechst. 
PUNT XCXeX. Pres: land: 2: 
Rallus Porzana, Linn. Syst. 1. 262. 3.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 712. 
Gallinula Porzana, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 772. sp. 19.—Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 
2. 688.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 99. sp. 131. 
Ortygometra Porzana, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 223. 
Rallus aquaticus minor, sive Maruetta, Briss. Orn. 5. 155. pl. 13. f. 1. 
Gallinula ochra Gesneri, Raii Syn. 115,— Will. (Angl.) 316. 
Rale d’Eau ou la Maronette, Buff: Ois. 8. 157.—Id. pl. Enl. 751. 
Poule d’Kau Maronette, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 688. 
Punktiertes Rhorhuhn, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 478.— Meyer, 'Tasschenb. 
Deut. 2. 412. 
Spotted gallinule, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 486. No. 215.—Arct. Zool. Sup. 69. 
—Lath. Syn. 5. 264. 18.— Wall. Syn. 2. pl. 172.— Mont. Ornith. Dict. 1. 
and Supp.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 99. sp. 131. 
Water Crake, Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. t. p. 10. 
Spotted Crake, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 223. 
Skitty, Rennie’s ed. of Mont. p. 462. 
Provincrat—Spotted Rail, Spotted Water-Rail, Spotted Water-Hen. 
Tuis prettily marked small species of Crake (being about 
one-third less than the preceding one) is one of our earliest 
birds of passage in arrival, and among the latest in taking 
its departure, as Montacu mentions having met with it in 
M 2 
General 
descrip- 
tion. 
Periodical 
visitant. 
