The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 83 
SPOTTED CRAKE.—An occasional visitor in the autumn; rare. 
To our surprise we never ourselves encountered this bird at 
large in Pembrokeshire, and every season we were shooting over 
ground exactly similar to that in which we had been accustomed 
to meet with the bird in other parts of the kingdom. It is 
evidently a rarity in the county. Sir Hugh Owen has shot it 
occasionally on Goodwick Moor ; and we know of one that was 
shot in the neighbourhood of Fishguard, in October, 1888. 
Mr. C. Jefferys has informed us that he shot a Spotted 
Crake near Tenby. There is a specimen in the Stackpole 
Court collection, and the bird is included in Mr. Mathias’ 
list. The Spotted Crake would seem to be equally scarce in 
the neighbouring county of Cardiganshire, where Mr. J. H. 
Salter informs us that he has not yet come across a single 
specimen. 
BAILLON’S CRAKE, Porzana baillont.Accidental ; only two on 
record. Sir Hugh Owen has informed us that he saw two of 
the ‘‘ Lesser Spotted Crake” on Goodwick Moor, in the autumn 
of 1869, and shot one of them. ‘The bird “looked like a field- 
mouse when swimming.” He has since recognised his specimen 
in Yarrell as Baillon’s Crake. 
CORN CRAKE, Cvex pratensis.—Summer visitor. The Corn-Crake 
is numerous in most parts of the county, where it arrives about 
the middle of April. We often saw it on our lawn at Stone 
Hall, and always had one or two nests close at hand. In the 
shooting season we noted it until the end of October, the latest 
birds being always found on wet places on high ground. We 
owned a setter that was very clever in catching and bringing us 
Corn-Crakes, and we would take the birds from him and let 
them go. One season he caught us a Corn-Crake several days 
in succession at the same corner in a field, which, we thought, 
indicated that the birds do not stray far from their place of 
birth until they migrate. 
