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with this species, and the short wings of this certainly render it equally 
improbable that it could be the Soree Gallinule. 
Strange as it may appear, that a bird so ill calculated for migration 
should be for the first time discovered in a country so populous and so 
cultivated, and where the science of natural history is more generally 
dilfused in the present era than in any part of the world ; yet it is 
probable that the Foljambean Gallinule may hereafter be found to breed 
in the fens of the eastern parts of Great Britain. It is more than pro- 
bable the bird in question would be mistaken for the water-rail, by the 
generality of sportsmen who might meet with it, and consequently may 
have frequently been consigned to oblivion, for want of the eye of the 
naturalist, and the rescuing hand of science. 
The habits of the smaller species of Gallinules, are their principal 
security ; they are equally caj)able of diving and concealing their 
bodies under water, with only the bill above the surface to secure 
respiration, and to run with celerity and conceal themselves amongst 
the rushes and flags of swampy places, from which they are with great 
difficulty roused, even with the assistance of dogs, depending more on 
concealment in thick cover, than upon their wings, to avoid danger, 
which combine to keep these species of birds in obscurity. 
It is somewhat remarkable that this hitherto concealed species 
should be discovered in different quarters at the samedime, Mr. Blasted, 
of Chelsea, having procured another specimen on the banks of the 
Thames, about the same time with Mr. Foljambe, which prevents its 
being considered as a lusus variety of any other species. About seven 
years after, another specimen was named Gallinule Bailloni, after 
M. Baillon, the coadjutor of Buffon, by Temminck, who describes it as 
haunting the banks of rivers and lakes, in many provinces of France, 
and in the whole of Italy. Its nest, he adds, is formed near the water, 
generally laying seven or eight eggs, of the shape of an olive, and of a 
brownish-olive colour, while its principal food consists of insects, snails, 
water-plants, &c.* 
OLIVE. — A name for the Oyster Catcher. 
OLIVE TUFTED DUCK. — A name for the Golden Eye. 
ORANGE-LEGGED HOBBY {Falco Rujipes^ Bechstein.) 
Eaucon, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 1. p. 33. — Falco Rufipes, Beseke. Vog. Kuriands, p. 
13. 14. male and female. — Bechst. Tasschenb. Dent. 2. p. 39 Meyer, 'I'ass- 
chenb. Dent. 1. p. 64. — Ih. Yog. Liv. und, Esthl, p. 23. — Falco Vespertinus, 
Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 282. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 46 — Buff. pi. Enl. 431. — In- 
grian Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 102 — Orange-legged Hobby, Lath. Syn. and 
Snpp. 2. p. 46. 
Several specimens of this small falcon having been lately met with 
