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llALLIDiS. 
to be. Its colour above was deep browii^ rather less olive than 
in C. porzana, densely dotted with white spots_, and semicircular 
markings of that colour ; throaty neck_, and breast lead or blue- 
grey; cliin faintly white. No streaks (properly so called) on 
the back or any part."’"’ This description being applied by me to 
specimens in the British Museum and Mr. Yarrelks collection^ they 
exhibited a perfect agreement with it^ excepting that the white 
markings were^ in some parts of the plumage of the few indivi- 
duals examined^ disposed in the form of streaks. The semicir- 
cular markings alluded to would^ however, it may be presumed, 
approximate in form to streaks. 
About six individuals of this species have been procured at 
various seasons, in different parts of England (Yarr.), but none 
in Scotland (Jard.). The data before me do not exhibit its dis- 
tribution or migration northward of the British Islands on the 
European continent. It is a bird of temperate and southern 
Europe, and found extensively over Africa and Asia. 
The Little Crake, or Olivaceous Gallinule. — Crex pusilla, 
Gallmula minuta. Cannot at present be included in the Irish cata- 
logue, although half as many more individuals have been obtained in 
England, than of C. Bailloni. It has not been met with in Scotland 
(Jard., &c.). What is said of the distribution of the last species 
will equally apply to this, excepting that it is not found extensively 
over Africa. 
THE WATEE-BAIL. 
llallus aqiiaticuSy Linn. 
Is permanently resident throughout the island, though 
little known except in winter ; when it falls a 
sacrifice to snipe-shooters. 
A YOUNG bird just escaped from the nest at Springmount, near 
Clough (Antrim), was once taken by Mr. J. E. Garrett, who some 
seasons afterwards shot a young bird of the year there on the 
