4^4 COMMON GALLITSrULE, AND CRAKE. 



41 1. CoMMOJr». Br. ZooL ii. N" 217. — BrunnUh, N" 191.— »La Poule d'Eau, DeBuffon, vlii. 171. 



—PL Enl. Syj.— Latham, iii. 

 Fulica chloropus, L/«. ^7?. 25S. — Lev.KTus. — Bi,. Mixs,- 



f^ With the head and upper part of the neck, body, and coverts of^- 

 the wings, of a fine deep olive green: primaries and tail duiky %: 

 breail and belly cinereous: vent white: legs green. Weight of the: 

 male fifteen ounces : length fourteen inches. 



Inhabits New York, and as low as Carolina: does not crofs ths 

 Baltic: rare in Denraark: inhabits RuJJia, and the weft of Sibiria.^: 

 but not the eaft. 



A, Crake, 5r. ZW.i. N°2i6. — Rallus crex. Angfnarpa ; Kornlcraka, F^aa. 5a«f .N* 194^ 

 Ee Rale de Terre, Genet, ou Roi des Cailles, De Buffon, viii. 146. — -PI. Enl. 750.— 

 Latham, iii. — Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



f^ With the crown, hind part of the neck, and back, black, edged 

 with bay : coverts of wings plain bay: tail of a deep bay: 

 belly dirty white : legs- cinereous. When lean weighs fix, when fat 

 eight ounces. 

 pi^cE. Inhabits Europe, even as far north as Brontbeim. Notwithftand- 



ing it isfo fhort-winged a bird, and a bad .flier, yet it is found in fum- 

 mer in the Schetland ides ; not uncommon in the temperate parts of 

 Rujfia and Sibiria, but none in the north, or towards the fhores. 

 Where Quails are concimon, in thofe countries this bird abounds; and 

 the contrary where Quails are fcarce. The Crakes depart at the 

 fame time with the Cranes. The 1'artars obferve how ill adapted 

 the firft are for a long flight; therefore believe that every Crane takes 

 a Crake on its back^ and fo aflifts,the migration*. 



* Gmelin. 



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