. A history of British birds . ed, on a generally duller ground. The wholelength of an adult bird is about nine inches. From thecarpal joint to the end of the longest quill-feather fourinches and a half. A variety in the collection of the late M. Hardy, of Dieppe,had the front portion of the neck suffused with a brightrose-colour. A specimen of the Carolina Crake (Porzana Carolina),shot by Mr. H. S. Eyre, in October, 1864, on the banks ofthe Kennet, near Newbury, Berks, was exhibited at themeeting of the Zoological Society, February 14th, 1865, byProfessor Newton, who remarked upon the powers
. A history of British birds . ed, on a generally duller ground. The wholelength of an adult bird is about nine inches. From thecarpal joint to the end of the longest quill-feather fourinches and a half. A variety in the collection of the late M. Hardy, of Dieppe,had the front portion of the neck suffused with a brightrose-colour. A specimen of the Carolina Crake (Porzana Carolina),shot by Mr. H. S. Eyre, in October, 1864, on the banks ofthe Kennet, near Newbury, Berks, was exhibited at themeeting of the Zoological Society, February 14th, 1865, byProfessor Newton, who remarked upon the powers of endur-ance in their flight of various members of the familyliallidce, and upon the occurrence of this species on a singleoccasion in Greenland (P. Z. S. 1865, p. 196, and 9540). The adult American representative may be dis-tinguished from the European bird by its black face. Onthe strength of a single occurrence it seems inexpedient toadd this species to the list of British birds. 148 FULIVABIJi. RALLIDiE. PORZANA PARVA (ScopoH *.) THE LITTLE CKAKE, OR OLIVACEOUS GALLINULE. Crex lyusilla. The first example of this species made known in thiscountry was shot near Ashhurton in Devonshire, in 1809,and was figured and described in Montagus Supplement tohis Ornithological Dictionary, under the name of LittleGallinule. It appears to be a female, but the sex was notnoted. The next specimen, recorded by Montagu, is bird, obtained in the shop of a London poulterer,in May, 1812, said to have been received from Norfolk :this is also figured and described under the name of theOlivaceous Gallinule in the Appendix to his Supplement, * Jialhis parrtd!, Scopoli, Ann. i. Hist. Nat. p. 108 (1769). LITTLE CRAKE. 149 and is considered to be an adult male. About the sametime Mr. Plasted, of Chelsea, obtained a similar bird, shoton the banks of the Thames near that place, and which, afterpassing into the possession of Mr. Leadbeater, was trans-ferred to the collecti
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