IX.B.
ALLEGRETTA NYMPHÆA, STELLARIS. STARRY ALLEGRET.
- Not separated by Linnæus, or Buffon, or Bewick, nor by popular German or French names, from the Marouette.
- Crex Baillonii, Baillon's Crake. Y.
- Porzana Pygmæa. G.
- Gallinula Stellaris. Temminck.
IX.C.
ALLEGRETTA NYMPHÆA, MINUTA. TINY ALLEGRET.
- Porzana Minuta, Olivaceous Crake. G.
- Crex Pusilla, Little Crake. Y.
- Poule d'Eau Poussin. Temminck.
- Little Gallinule. B.
It never occurred to me, when I was writing of classical landscape, that 'Poussin' to a French ear conveyed the idea of 'chicken,' or of the young of birds in general. (Is it from 'pousser,' as if they were a kind of budding of bird?) Everybody seems to agree in feeling that this is a kind of wren among the dabchicks. Bewick's name, 'Little Gallinule,' meaning of course, if he knew it, the twice-over little Gallina;—and here again the question occurs to me about its voice. Is it a twice-over little crow, called a 'creak,' or anything like the Rail's more provokingly continuous objurgation?—compare notes below on Rallus Aquaticus. I find, with some alarm, in Buffon, that one with a longer tail, the Cau-rale or Tail-rail of Cayenne, is there called 'Little Peacock of the Roses;' but its cry is represented by the liquid syllables 'Piolo,' while the black-spotted one of the Society Islands—Magellan's 'Water-quail'—says 'Poo-a-nee,' and the Bidi-bidi of Jamaica says 'Bidi-bidi.'
X.
150. TREPIDA STAGNARUM. LITTLE GREBE.
- Colymbus Minor. L.
- Le Castagneux. F.
- Deutchel. T.
- Tropazarola? I.
- Podiceps Minor. C.
- Little Grebe. B.