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BIEDS OF BEITISH BUEMAH. 
Genus POEZANA, Vieill. 
696. PORZANA BAILLONI. 
BAILLON^S CRAKE. 
Rallus bailloni, Vieill. Nouv. Bid. d^Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 648. Crex pygmaea, 
Naum. Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. ix. p. 567. Porzana pygmaea, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 
p. 723 ) Hume ^ Henders. Lali. to Yark. p. 293 ; Hume, S. F. i. p. 251 ; Bl. B, 
Burm. p. 161 ; Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 230 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, 
p. 487. Zapornia pygmaea, Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 603. Ortygometra 
pygmaea, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 301. Porzana bailloni, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. 
p. 275, pi. ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 766 ; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 467 ; Hume, 
S. F. y'm. p. 113 ; Scidly, S. F. viii. p. 358 ; Hume Sf Marsh. Game Birds, ii. 
p. 203, pi. ; Oates, S. i^. x. p. 242. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead^ crown_, nape, back^ rump, 
scapulars and upper tail-coverts rufous-brown, each feather broadly- 
streaked with black down the centre, and those of the back_, scapulars and 
rump with irregular narrow interrupted white streaks ; tertiaries rufous- 
brown, the portion next the shaft black, the outer webs with bar-like white 
spots ; primaries and secondaries brown, the first primary edged with 
white on the outer web ; upper wing-coverts rufous-brown, some of the 
longer ones mottled with white at the tips ; ear-coverts and feathers under 
the eye and sides of the neck rufous ; lores, a broad supercilium, cheeks, 
fore neck and breast ashy grey ; chin and throat albescent ; centre of the 
abdomen greyish white ; sides of the body rufous-grey ; flanks, vent and 
under tail-coverts brown barred with white ; under wing-coverts brown, 
sparingly marked with white. 
Bill dark green ; iris reddish ; legs light green ; claws greenish. {A. 
Anderson, MS.) 
Length 7*5 inches, tail 2, wing 3*3, tarsus 1, bill from gape '7. The 
female appears to be of the same size. 
P. parva, the Little Crake of Europe, is of about the same size, but 
every portion of the lower plumage and sides of the head are a uniform 
deep plumbeous ashy in the male, dull pinkish in the female. P. exqui- 
sita, from China, has the upper plumage brown irregularly barred with 
white, and the under wing-coverts, axillaries and secondaries are pure 
white; it is figured in '^The Ibis,-' 1875, pi. iii. No reference to this very 
distinct and beautiful species appears to be made by Messrs. David et 
Oustalet in their ' Oiseaux de la Chine. ^ P. cinerea is a species which 
occurs in the southern portion of the Malay peninsula. 
Baillon^s Crake is said by Mr. Blyth to be common in Burmah, and no 
doubt it is so. I have, however, been able to procure only one specimen 
