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99. Tetrastes honasia (L.). [Hazelhoen]. 



No specimen killed in our country is in the collection. 

 The only known specimen, with certainty killed in the 

 Netherlands, has not been preserved ; it was shot 9 November 

 1895 near Winterswijk, province Gelderland '). 



Rallidae. 



100. Rallus aquaticus L. [Waterral]. 



14 specimens killed in the months October, November, 

 December, January and February. 



101. Crex crex (L.). [Kwartelkoning]. 



No adult specimen of this tolerably common species is 

 received by the Museum since 1904, only two young ones 

 in down captured on Texel 28 June 1906. 



102. Porzana porzana (L.). [Porseleinhoentje]. 



Six specimens, killed in August, September and October 

 near Leiden and Wageningen and on Texel. 



103. Porzana parvus (Scopoli). [Klein waterhoentje]. 



We possess only one specimen killed in the Netherlands, 

 a young male from Zwartsluis, Overijssel, 9 September 1872 

 (Coll. van Wickevoort Croramelin, 222 — 1). 



104. Porzana pusillus (Pallas). [Kleinste waterhoentje]. 



We possess four specimens from the Netherlands, viz. : 

 old female, 10 August 1868, Helvoort, Noord-Brabant ; 

 young male, 31 August 1872, Zwartsluis, Overijssel (Coll. 



van Wickevoort Crommelin, 223 — 1) ; 



I) C. Nozeman (Nederlandscbe VogelcD, II, 1789, p. 165) communicates, 

 that one Count van Nassau-Bergen told him in 1748, that he had shot 

 once in the woods near Bergen, Noord-Holland, an example of Tetrao 

 urogallus L. 



Notes from the l-<eydeii Museum, Vol. XXX. 



