GALLINULINJE. CHEX. GALLINULA. 115 
cheeks, fore-neck and breast brownish-white, with faint trans- 
verse brown bars. 
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This species, which is said to be common in the southern 
and eastern parts of Europe, ranks with us as a very rare and 
accidental visitant. In January 1823 an individual was 
caught in Cambridgeshire, and is preserved in Dr Thackeray’s 
collection. 
Gallinula Baillonii, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 692. — Bail- 
Ion’s Crake, Crex Baillonii, Jard. and Selby’s Xllustr. pi. 15. 
— Crex Baillonii, Baillon’s Crake, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, 
iv. 
213 . Crex pusilla. Little Crake. 
Length seven inches and three-fourths ; bill along the 
ridge eight-twelfths and a half, more slender than in the last 
species, yellowish-green ; feet light green ; upper parts olive- 
brown, spotted with dusky, and having on the back a few 
white streaks ; a band over the eye, cheeks, and lower parts 
in general bluish-grey ; the sides faintly barred with white 
and brown, lower tail-coverts black, barred with white. The 
female differs in having the throat whitish, the grey tint of 
the lower parts paler and tinged with red ; the upper parts 
reddish-brown. The young still paler beneath, being brown- 
ish-white on the cheeks and neck, the sides brown, with faint 
whitish bars. 
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Of very rare and accidental occurrence in England, in 
several parts of which it has however been obtained. In its 
habits it resembles the two preceding species, and is said to 
be plentiful in the eastern parts of Europe. 
Ballus pusillus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 761. — Gallinula 
pusilla, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 690.— Crex pusilla, Little 
Crake, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds. 
GENUS CXI. GALLINULA. WATER-HEN. 
The Water-Hens differ in no very essential respects from 
the Gallinules, their principal distinction being their having 
a kind of callosity or plate on the forehead at the base of 
the ridge of the upper mandible, and their toes flat beneath 
and laterally margined. They are birds of moderate or 
small size, having the body large, but much compressed ; 
