The beak yellowish brown, tinged with reddish brown at
the base; the irides dark brown; top of the" head dark
brownish black; cheeks, sides- and back of the neck olive-
brown, spotted with white ; back dark olive-brown, each
feather black in the centre, and streaked longitudinally with
some narrow lines of white; rump, upper tall-eoverts, and
tail-feathefS black in the middle, margined with ^clove-brown,
and spotted with white; wing-coverts olive-»broWn, spotted
with white; quill-feathers very dark brown; tertials transversely
streaked with narrow lines of white ; T chin, neck,- and
breast dark brown, spotted with, white; bellyV'-venk, and
undef7 tail-coverts huffy white,; siddS^and flanks’slekd-grey,'
barred with white ; legs and toes greenish yellow; the claws
brown.
Mr. Selby’s description of the young is as follows-flipper
parts of a deep oil-green, the white’ dispersed in the fomr
of small spots; eyebrows deep grby, with numerous white
.specks; cheeks, chin, and throat greyish whitei,:’with a-few
darker specks; lower part of the neck and the breast oil-
green, tinged with grey, and with small spots of white';- belly
and abdomen greyish white; quills deep hair-brown; legs-
deep oil-green, tinged with grey ; bill dirty saffron-yellow at
the base, the tip brown.
The young at- its birth is covered with black down ; the
beak red at the point and at the, base, and encircled at the
middle with a band of black.
The whole length of an adult bird about nine inches.
From the carpal joint to the end of the longest quilkfeather
four inches and a half.
GRALliATORES. RALL1DJE.
T H E L IT T L E CRAKE,
or Olivaceous Gallinule.
Gallinula minuta, Little Gallinule,
• r ' ' Foljambei, Olivaceous-,,
-" I rT n nMEW^tti ■ ! >>
Foljambei, Olivaceous ,, ■ ■,
pusilla, Little
' Foljambei, Olivaceous ,,
Crex pusilla,. Little Crake,
Zapornia ,, ,, ,,
Gallinula Foule d’eau Poussin,
liioNT. Supp. Ornith. Diet.
,, Appendix to Supp.
B ewick, Brit. Birds* vol. ii. p. 142. jj
„ „ „ „ p. 144.
F lem. Brit. An. p. 99.
SEEBy, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 185.
J enyns, Brit. VerUp. 219.
Gcftfk-D, Birds of Europe, pt. x.
Temm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. ii. p. 690.
T he first example o f this species made known in this
country, was shot near Ashburton in Devonshire, in 1809,
and Colonel Montagu received it from Mr. Tucker. This
bird, figured and described in Montagu’s Supplement to his