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the upper ridge of the superior mandible, which gives 
a swollen appearance to that part of those birds : the 
nostrils are more linear : the neck is longer and slen- 
derer, and the body is more compressed than in the 
Crakes. Again, the legs are strikingly different ; 
these parts being much longer, as well as having their 
tibiffi divested of feathers nearly half of their length, 
whereas in the Crakes they are stout, and clothed 
almost to the knee. In this genus also the wings are 
very different in structure ; the first quill being con- 
siderably shorter than the other, which are suddenly 
though gradually diminished in length to the inner 
one ; the wing itself reaching to the tip of the tail. 
LITTLE CRAKER. 
(Zapornia pusilla.) 
Za. Jerrugineo nigroque lineata, corpore subtus nigro Jasciolis 
albis,jugulo ftectoreque ccBrvlescentibiis . 
Craker striped with rust- colour and black, the body beneath black 
with white fasciolae, the jugulum and breast bluish. 
Zapornia minuta. Leach, Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 34. 
Rallus pusillus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 719. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
761. 
Gallinula pusilla. Beckstein. Temm. man. dOrn. 448. 
Poule d'eau naine. Temm. man. d'Orn. AA7 . 
Poule d'eau poussin. Temm. man. d'Orn. 2 Edit. ii. G90. 
Dwarf Rail. Lath. Syn. S>'p. ii. 323. 
Little Gallinule. Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. 
This interesting little species is scarcely eight 
inches in length : its beak is bright green, with its 
