THE LITTLE CRAKE. 211 



only seasonal ? I see that Naumann says* that in dead and stuff- 

 ed birds only a feeble trace of the red remains, and that in 

 young birds it is very inconspicuous, but my specimens show 

 no trace of it, and they are none of them young. 



The PLATE is tolerable, but fails to show the white spotting 

 of the back, and the under surface of none of our Indian (or, I 

 may add, my European) specimens of females is pink, as depict- 

 ed. Dresser indeed says : — " Lower throat, breast and abdomen 

 flesh-pink with an ochreous tinge ;" but in no specimen before 

 me are these parts other than fulvous fawn, without the small- 

 est intermixture of pink. Possibly this pink shade also may 

 be seasonal. 



* Vogel Deutschlands, XL, p. 550. 



