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987. Porzana bailloni ( Vieill.) . 



Lord Lilford shot an adult female Baillon's Crake near 

 Larnaca on April the 19th, 1875. Glaszner sent Madarasz 

 a male taken at the same place on November the 8th, 1901. 

 I had a bird of this species brought to me alive on April 

 the 4th, 1909, which had been captured near Pera, about ten 

 miles from Nicosia. From April the 1st, 1910, onwards, 

 Messrs. Baxendale and Horsbrugh obtained several at the 

 Famagusta marshes. Possibly it is a resident, but I am 

 disposed to regard it as a visitor on the migrations and 

 in winter. 



989 PoHZANA PARVA (Scop.). 



Guillemard observed the Little Crake near Larnaca in early 

 February 1887, and shot a specimen near the same place on 

 April the 7th in the following year. Messrs. Baxendale and 

 Horsbrugh found it quite abundant at the Famagusta lakes 

 at the end of March and beginning of April, 1910, and 

 obtained over a dozen specimens. It is a visitor at the 

 seasons of migration and perhaps in winter. 



993. Crex pratensis Bechst. 



The Corn-Crake or Land-Kail was included in Sibthorp's 

 list, but was not met with by Lord Lilford. Schrader refers 

 to it as a spring and autumn migrant. Guillemard heard it 

 once on March the 6th, 1888, and Glaszner sent a female to 

 Madarasz taken on August the 27th, 1901, near Larnaca. 

 Mr. G. F. Wilson records an example shot near Nicosia in 

 mid-September, 1908; I flushed ouewhen shooting nearPapho 

 close to the sea on September the 21st ; Mr. G. F. Wilson 

 himself shot one at Nicosia on October the 10th and 

 Mr. Baxendale another at Papho on October the 19th — all 

 in 1908. 



I have never heard its cry in Cyprus, and I believe that it 

 is only a spring and autumn migrant or an occasional visitor. 



998. Gallinula chloropus (Linn.). 



The Water-hen or Moor-hen is another species which was 

 recognised by Sibthorp. 



Lord Lilford called it " common in all suitable localities," 

 but I can only find one record by Guillemard, namely whei'e 



