The nest of the Striped Crake is first mentioned by Andersson - Ortygometra marginalis (Hartl.), Olive-margined Crake - in Birds of Damara Land (1872), pp. 318-320. In February and March 1867, Andersson at Ondonga, Ovamboland, collected and observed specimens of this rare crake, as well as obtaining eggs - which he describes "of a yellowish ground-colour almost hidden near the thicker end by a broad zone of light brownish red". Three females were collected, one each respectively on 6th and 23rd February and on 2nd March. Eggs, as described above, and said to be those of the Striped Crake were brought to him (and also a 2 ) on 23rd February; their identity was confirmed by Andersson when, on 1st March, he found a nest containing four similar eggs, situated just on the edge of a marsh, in a dryish tuft of grass; the parent, though not secured was several times observed. The next day, 2nd March, another nest (the third) was brought by a native, with the bird which he had captured upon it, and four eggs. On 26th March, an abandoned nest was found with five eggs, far from the water; it had the surrounding grass tied above it, as in the nest of the Lesser Moorhen Gallinula angulata Sundevall. I have been unable to establish whether Andersson's eggs are still in existance.