BAILLON'S CRAKE.
Créa: Bailhmii,
GalUnula BaïUomt,
Zapornia BailloniiA
Ortygometra Baillonn,
JENYNS.
TEMMINCK,
STEPHENS.
SHAW.
Oreo—, Baillonii—Oî Bâillon.
T H E name of this species was assigned to it by Temminck, in honour
of M. Baillon, an eminent naturalist of Abbeville, in Picardy.
It is found in different parts of Germany, Italy, Hungary, Greece,
Switzerland, and Dalmatia, and is said to breed in some of the northern
provinces of 1 La belle France' along the coast, and to be by no means
uncommon in that district. It belongs likewise to the routinents of
Asia and Africa, and to the islands of the former, having been found,
according to M. Temminck, in Japan.
I n Cambridgeshire, one of these Crakes was caught at Melbourne,
in January, 1823; in Norfolk it has occurred, but is very rare. One,
a male, was killed upon a marsh at Dilham, on the 2nd. of April, 1833,
another, an immature bird, three years previously at Barton, the
adjoining parish. In Suffolk, one was shot near Beccles, another at
Nacton, and was in the possession of John Vernon, Esq. In Derbyshire,
a specimen was obtained near Derby, in November, 1821. In Somersetshire,
one, an adult female, at Weston-super-Mare, in the month of
September, 1840. In Itampshire, one near Alvcrstoke, in the year
1823 or 1821. In Cornwall, one specimen at Penzance, and another
at Zennor. A specimen was obtained near Deal, Kent, the 19th. of
September, 1850, by C. A. Dchnar, Esq.; he subsequently procured a
second in the same locality, in the latter part of October, 1851.
I n Ireland one was taken at ( ' l ay Castle, near Youghal, in the county
of Cork, on the 30th. of October, 1815. It has occurred in Scotland
in Caithness.