the Birds of Devon. 
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Gen. OR.TVGOBXSTRA, Steph. 
O. porzana, Idnn., Spotted Crake. 
Not common, but occasionally met with. 
O. minuta, Pall, Little Crake. 
Scarce. Three or four specimens only have occurred. 
Qen. RAZiZiUS, Linn. 
R. aquaticus, Linn., Water Rail. 
Not uncommon in winter. 
Gen. GAXiZiXNUXiA, Briss. 
G. cllloropuS) Linn., Marsh Hen. 
Common. 
Gen. FUXiXCA, Linn. 
F> atrai Linn., Coot. 
Not uncommon. 
Famlt— OTID^. 
Gen. OTIS, Linn. 
O. tardai Linn., Great Bustard. 
Several instances of this now (as far as the British Islands are 
concerned) almost extinct bird, have, during the last sixty or seventy 
years, been found in this county, and one of the last killed in England 
was obtained in the parish of Bratton Clovelly, North Devon, in a 
marshy piece of ground, December 31st, 1851. This specimen 
Mr. Gatcombe had an opportunity of examining. It proved to be 
a female, and the stomach contained a large quantity of turnip 
leaves mixed with several flat flinty stones about the size of a six- 
pence. The base of the feathers on the breast and back were of 
a beautiful rose colour. 
O. .tetrlx, Linn., Little Bustard. 
There have been occasional captures of this bird, and specimens 
now and then turn up at long intervals. 
