CXXXVIII. 



GALLINULA BAILLONII. (Temm.) 



Baillons Crake. 



The kindness of my friend Mr. Doubleday, has enabled 

 me to figure the egg of the present species. It is, both in 

 shape and colour, very different from those of the rest of the 

 genus, as will be readily seen on reference to the Plate. 



Baillons Crake is with us a rare visitant, and has not been 

 known to breed on our shores; it is not uncommon on various 

 parts of the Continent, and Mr. Selby informs us that it is well 

 known in the neighbourhood of Boulogne, where it breeds in 

 the marshes. 



Mr. Hoy took the eggs in 1835, near the River Meuse, in 

 the north-eastern parts of Belgium, but was unable to meet 

 with them in the same locality the following year; the nest he 

 states, is extremely cUfficult to find ; it is placed like that of 

 the Water Hen, upon tufts of reeds or rushes, upon the 

 banks of rivers, or by the margin of ponds, and marshy 

 districts; it is of sedge and water growing plants, and 

 contains eight or ten eggs. 



