baillon's crake. 123 



The colouring of the adult male is, on the top of the head, 

 and back of the neck, Avood-brown ; back, scapulars, and 

 wing-coverts, yellowish-brown, with a tinge of olive, and 

 marked with oval and triangular white spots that are sur- 

 rounded with black, and some of them have a black spot 

 in their centre ; the flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts are 

 black, transversely barred with white ; the throat, cheeks, and 

 regions of the eyes, frontal part of the neck, sides, breast, and 

 belly, bluish slate-colour ; the beak is olivaceous-green, legs 

 and toes flesh-coloured brown ; eyes reddish brown ; the 

 quills and middle tail-feathers, brownish dusky ; the outer 

 edge of the first quill-feather, white. The female resembles 

 the male, her colouring is, however, somewhat paler. 



The young bird has the throat and middle part of the belly 

 white, with transverse uneven bars of brown ; the flanks 

 olivaceous, with white spots ; the spots of the upper parts are 

 fewer in number than in the adult. 



The egg figured 209 is that of Baillon's Crake. 



