RALLIDJ3 — THE RAILS — CREX 
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Genus CREX, Bechstein. 
Crex, Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. IV. 1803, 470 (type, C. pratcnsis, Bechst., = Rallus crcx, Linn.). 
Char. Similar to Porzana, but larger and of stouter build, the middle toe shorter than the 
tarsus, the culmen scarcely depressed in the middle portion, and the base of the gonys forming a 
decided angle. 
C. pratensis. 
Crex pratensis. 
THE CORN-CRAKE. 
Rallus crex, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 153 ; ed. 12, I. 1766, 261. — Degl. Orn. Eur. II. 1849, 266. 
Gallinula crcx, Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 1790, 766. 
Crex pratensis, Bechst. Taschenb. Yog. Deutsch. 1803, 337. — Naum. Vog. Deutschl. IX. 1838, 496, 
pi. 236. — Bonap. Comp. List, 1838, 53. — Iveys. & Blas. Wirt). Eur. 1840, 67. — Macgill. 
Man. II. 113 ; Hist. Brit. B. IV. 1852, 527. — Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. VII. Jan. 1855, 
265 (New Jersey) ; in Baird’s B. N. Am. 1858, 751. — Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 558. 
— Coues, Key, 1872, 274 ; Check List, 1873, no. 471 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 683. ■ — Ridgw. Nom. 
N. Am. B. 1881, no. 577. 
Crcx herbarum and C. aUiccps, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. 1831, 694. 
The Land-Rail, Yark. Brit. B. ed. 2, III. 92, fig. ; ed. 3, III. 107, fig. ; et Auct. 
Hab. Palsearctic Region, occurring casually or irregularly in Eastern North America ; Green- 
land ; Bermudas. 
Sp. Char. Adult : Above, grayish brown or light drab, conspicuously striped with black ; 
wings reddish, with indistinct white transverse spots on the larger coverts. Lining of the wing 
and axillars, soft cinnamon, the former edged with white. Head ash-gray, with an indistinct loral 
and postocular narrow stripe of very pale drab — the crown like the back ; throat, belly, and anal 
