SPOTTED CRAKE. 
223 
Fulica noveboracensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 701. 
Galliuula noveboracensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 771. 
Yellow-breasted Gallinule. Penn. Arct. ZooK 2. 410. Lath. 
Gen. Syn. 5. 262. 
Said to be smaller than a Quail : the crown of 
the head and hind part of the neck dark olive-brown, 
spotted with white : the back plain brown : the sca- 
pulars edged with yellowish-white : the breast dirty 
yellow : legs brown. Inhabits New York. 
SPOTTED CRAKE. 
(Ortygometra Porzana.) 
Or. JuscoroUvacea nigro alboque mriegata, suhtus cinerea alhido 
varia, rectricibus duabus intermediis albo-marginatis. 
Olive-brown Crake varied with black and white, beneath grey 
varied with white, with the two middle tail-feathei*s edged with 
white. 
Rallus Porzana. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 262. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 
712. 
Gallinula Porzana. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 772, 
Rallus aquaticus minor, sive Maruetta. Briss. Orn. 5. 155. 
Tpi is.y: 1. 
Gallinula ochra Gesneri. Raii, Syn. 115. 
Petit Rale d'eau, ou le Marouette. Buff. Ois. 8. 157. Buff. PI. 
Enl. 751. Temm. man. d'Orn. 446. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 688. 
Spotted Gallinule. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 215. Penn. Arct. Zool. 
Sup. 69. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 264. Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 1 72. 
Leiv. Brit. Birds, 5. 1 92. Don. Brit. Birds, 5. pi. 122. Mont. 
Orn, Diet. 1 . and Supp. 
Water Crake. Bexv. Brit. Birds, 2. pi. 10. 
