212 A HAND -LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Summer resident and passage- 

 migrant (March-May and Aiig.-Xov.), occasionally wintering. Now 

 rarely recorded breeding but probably still does so in some southern 

 English counties and in East Anglia, Trent Valley, Yorks, and 

 Brecon and possibly elsewhere. Formerly bred more commonly 

 and as far north as southern Scotland, but Elgin record unlikely. 

 Fairly frequent autumn-migrant except in north-west and north 

 Scotland where very rare, once Hebrides, rarely Orkneys and 

 Shetlands. In Ireland uncommon autumn, occasional winter- 

 visitor. Bred (apparently commonly) Roscommon about 1851, 

 apparently young bird taken Kerry and heard calling several 

 nights Waterford, May, 1900. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — "Europe generally up to about 65° north 

 lat., as far east as Yarkand ; wintering in Indian Peninsula and in 

 Africa. Accidental in Greenland " (Sharpe). Probably also breeds 

 north-west Africa. 



PORZANA CAROLINA 



456. Porzana Carolina (L.)— THE CAROLINA CRAKE. 



Rallus carolinus Linnseus, Syst. Xat., ed. x, i, p. 153 (1758 — 

 X. America. Restricted typical locality : Hudson Bay). 

 Porzana Carolina, Yarrell, iii, p. 147 (in text) ; Saunders, p. 510 (in text) ; 

 Lort Phillips, Bull. B.O.C., xii, p. 26. 



Distribution. — Great Britain. — Three. Near Kewbury (Berks.), 

 Oct 1864 (Saunders, p. 510). Near Cardiff, 1888 {Birds Glamorgan, 

 p. 113). Male Tiree (I. Hebrides), Oct. 25th., 1901 (E. Lort Phillips, 

 Bull. B.O.C., xii, p. 26 ; c/. Brit. B., 11, p. 29). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds in North America, winters from 

 California and South Carolina through West Indies and Central 

 America to South America, accidental in Bermudas and Greenland. 



PORZANA PARVA 



457. Porzana parva (Scop.)— THE LITTLE CRAKE. 



Rallus parvus Scopoli, Annus i, Historico-Xatur., p. 108 (1769 — 



Camiola). 



Porzana parva (Scopoli), Yarrell, iii, p. 148 ; Saunders, p. 511. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — ^Vagrant. England. — About forty, 

 as follows : Yorks. (five), Lines., Norfolk (eleven), Suffolk, Cambs., 

 Middlesex, Oxon., Surrey (possibly), Sussex (four), Hants, (four), 

 Dorset (two), Somerset, Devon (several), Cornwall, Salop, Lanes., 

 Cumberland (two). Scotland. — Two. Banff, March, 1852, Ayr, 

 March, 1909. Ireland.— Two. co. Dublin, March, 1854, Kildare, 

 Nov., 1903. 



