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heads, but no more, out of the water." The Spotted 

 Crake is rarer in Furness ; Mr. Anthony Mason of 

 Grange tehs me that he has only once seen it, when two 

 birds were killed a few years ago by flying against the 

 telegraph wires in that neighbourhood. 



BAILLON'S CEAKE. 



POKZANA EAILLONI (Yieillot). 



Mr. James Holland of Middleton states that a speci- 

 men was killed near that town by a telegraph wire in 

 the autumn of 1870. [In May 1886 Mr. Woodburn 

 obtained one in the clay-pits near Conishead and Ulver- 

 ston, in the Furness district. See Rev. H. A. Macpher- 

 son's " Fauna of Lakeland." — Ed.] 



LITTLE CRAKE. 



PORZANA PARYA (Scopoli). 



A very rare visitor ; the following are on record : — 

 A specimen caught alive in a drain in Ardwick 

 meadows, near Manchester, in the autumn of 1807, now 

 in the Manchester Museum {Mag. Xat. Hist., 1829, 

 p. 275, John Blackwall). Has been shot on the pond at 

 Drinkwater Park, 1860 (John Plant, Mss.). "North 

 Meols " {XatnmUst, 1837, P. Rylands). " One specimen 

 from Crosby — Mather " (Byerley, " Fauna of Liver- 

 pool," 1856). One killed at Bradshaw Fold, 1864 (R. 

 Davenport, Mss.). [In April 1886, the Mr. Woodburn 

 above mentioned, took a Little Crake alive by means of 

 his retriever in the clay-pits. This success led to further 

 search, and to the capture of the Baillon's Crake, See 

 '' Fauna of Lakeland."— Ed.] 



