BRITISH BIRDS. 
3*3 
¥ery delicious eating. The female lays ten or 
twelve eggs, on a neft made of a little mofs or dry 
grafs carelefsly put together ; they are of a pale 
afti colour, marked with ruft-coloured fpots. The 
young Crakes run as foon as they have burft the 
ihell, following the mother ; they are covered with 
a black down, and foon find the ufe of their legs.— 
Our figure was made from the living bird fent us 
by Lieut. H. F. Gibfon, 
