432 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
bipunctaria. Common. July. Penlee Point, Whitsand Bay, 
Bovisand, Crabtree. 
Analtis plagiata. Common. May, June, August, and September. 
Bickleigh, Plymbridge, Plympton. 
CuEsIAs spartiata. Local, and not common. September and Octo- 
ber. Plymbridge, Marsh Mills. 
TanaGRa cherophyllata. Rare near Plymouth, common at Bolt 
Head. Juneand July. MHorrabridge, Cann Wood. 
This list comprises all the Geometree that I can ascertain to have 
been taken in the vicinity of Plymouth. The number of Geometree 
occurring in Great Britain (Newman’s “ British Moths,” 1869) 
amounts to 276, 147 of which have been taken in this locality. 
BAILLON’S CRAKE. CREX BAILLONIL 
AN immature specimen of this our smallest Gallinule (although 
the Olivaceous Gallinule, G. minuta, is thus wrongly named 
Minuta) was obtained last week in the marsh lying near the 
Marazion Railway Station. I have noted two from this neigh- 
bourhood before, and they were fine adult specimens, with the full 
lead-blue colour on the under parts which characterizes the adult 
bird both in this and the Little Gallinule, so-called. This colour is 
entirely absent in the specimen now under notice, the prevailing 
tone of colour being a dull ash-brown, with striated lines and 
markings. I observed the irides in this young bird were bright 
yellow ; in the adult bird the colour is vermilion. Weight, just 
over one ounce. HK. H. Ropp. 
PENZANCE, Oct. 13th, 1877. 
