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EAILLON’s CRAKE. 
each feather spotted on the tips white ; chin greyish- 
white ; hreast and flanks oil-green, on the former 
indistinctly marbled with white ; on the flanks barred 
with white, relieved with black ; middle of the belly 
nearly white ; vent and under tail-coverts ochreous ; 
axillary feathers dark clove-brown, barred narrowly 
with white as in some of the Scolopacidw ; bill 
orange-red at the base, shading to yellow, in some 
to greenish-yellow, at the tip brown ; legs and feet 
greenish-yellow. 
* Baielon’s Crake, Crex Baiixoxii. — Crex Bail- 
lonii , Illust. of Ornith. — Gallinula Bail/unii, poule 
d’eau Baillon, Temm — Zapomia Baillonii, Steph., 
Gould. — Baillon s Crake or Gallinule of British 
authors. — This little Crake is almost a miniature 
representation of the last, and is beautifully marked 
on the upper parts with clear white spots. It is a 
bird not frequently met with, both from being com- 
paratively limited in numbers, and from the activity 
it displays in eluding attempts to raise it from its 
retreats. It has been taken in several of the English 
counties as far north as Derbyshire ; but we have 
no notice of it in Ireland. A specimen, which we 
shall immediately describe, is now before us, shot 
in summer, a few years since, in an extensive moss 
in this vicinity. Baillon’s Crake seems to be taken 
at all seasons with us, though most of the captures 
recorded have been made very late in autumn, or in 
winter ; the nest is said to be constructed similarly 
to that of the last. In the marshes of the continent 
