70 GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL. 



eggs are from five to eight in number ; pale olive or rich buff in 

 ground colour, indistinctly mottled, blotched, and freckled with 

 olive-brown and gray. They measure on an average it inch in 

 length by -8 inch in breadth. Incubation lasts about three weeks. 

 The female is a close sitter, and leaves her nest very quietly when 

 disturbed. Two broods are probably reared in the year. 



Diagnostic Characters. — Crex, with no white spots on the 

 sides of the throat and the breast, with the under tail coverts and 

 flanks black barred with white, and with a white margin to the 

 outer web of the first primary. Length, 7 inches. 



