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CEEX PEATENSIS. 



(LAND-RAIL.) 



Rallus genistarum sive ortygometra, Briss. Orn. v. p. 159, pi. xiii. fig. 2 (1760). 



Rallus crex, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 261 (1766). 



Le Rale de terre ou de genet, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 146- (1781). 



Gallinula crex (L.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 766 (1790). 



Crex pratensis, Bechst. Gemeinn. Naturg. Deutschl. i. p. 461 (1805). 



Ortygometra crex (L.), Leach, Syst. Cat. B. & M. Brit. Mus. p. 34 (1816). 



Crex herbarum, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 694 (1831). 



Crex alticeps, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 694 (1831). 



Corn-Crake, Land-Bail, English ; Treun-re-treun, Treunna, Gaelic ; Rale des jares, French ; 

 Codornizao, Portuguese ; Guia de los codomices, Spanish ; Re di quaglie, Italian ; Gallotz 

 ta Germania, Maltese; Wiesen-Sumpfhuhn, Wiesenralle, German; Kvartelkoning, Dutch; 

 Vagtelkonge, Danish ; Eakurskrivt, Fseroese ; Agerrixe, Norwegian ; Angknarr, Kornknarr, 

 Swedish ; Ruisradkkd, Finnish ; Dergatsch, Korostell, Bussian. 



Figures notabiles. 



DAubenton, PI. Enl. 750 ; Werner, Atlas, Gralles, pi. 34 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 38 ; Frisch, 

 Vog. Deuschl. taf. 212 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 32. figs. 2, 6 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. 

 taf. 236 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 45. fig. 2 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 341 ; id. B. of G. 

 Brit. iv. pi. 87; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 256; Bettoni, Ucc. Lomb. pi. 91. 



j ad. pileo, collo postico et corpore supra cum cauda et supracaudalibus olivaceo-ochraceis et rufescenti- 

 ochraceis nigro-fusco guttatis : remigibus saturate fuscis rufescenti lavatis : tectricibus alarum cinna- 

 momeo-ferrugineis : mento albido, capitis lateribus griseo-caeruleis, vitta. per oculum ducta pallide 

 brunnea. : gula, gutture et pectore schistaceo-cinereis vix fusco tinctis : colli lateribus cinereo-ocbraceis 

 rufescente fusco guttatis, hypochondriis rufescenti-fuscis albo fasciatis : abdomine et subcaudalibus 

 albis, bis rufescente fusco notatis : rostro fusco-corneo : iride brunnea : pedibus pallide griseo-carneis. 



2 ad. mari similis sed sordidior, nee gutture et pectore sehistaceo-cinereis, sed pallide fusco-cinereis. 



Adult Male (Hampstead, April) . Crown blackisb brown marked witb warm ocbreous j sides of tbe head 

 blue-grey, with a pale brown band passing through tbe eye to the neck ; hind neck, back, scapulars, 

 rump, tail, and upper tail-coverts blackish brown, the feathers broadly margined with greyish ochreous 

 and reddish ochreous ; quills dark brown witb a rufous tinge ; wing-coverts rusty red ; chin white ; 

 throat and breast blue-grey tinged with brown ; sides of the neck greyish ochreous marked with dark 

 reddish brown; flanks reddish brown barred with white; abdomen and under tail-coverts white, the 

 latter marked with reddish brown; bill dark brown; iris clear brown; legs greyish flesh-colour. 

 Total length about 10'5 inches, culmen 08, wing 5'5, tail 2 - 15, tarsus 1*5. 



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