PHASIANID®—RALLID/ oT 
Family PHASIANIDA. 
221. PHASIANUS CoLcHIcUS, Linn. Pheasant. 
The old British pheasant is probably now quite extinct, all our birds 
being more or less a cross between this and the Chinese ring-necked 
P. torquatus. The last of the old type I have seen was in 1889, but this 
had been shot several years before. 
222. PERDIX CINEREA, Lath. Partridge. 
Common and resident. 
223. CaccaBIs RUFA (Linn.). LRed-legged Partridge. 
Common, resident, and greatly on the increase. In March and April 
considerable numbers are known to come in from sea much exhausted, 
and they have been taken on several occasions, both at the Spurn and 
Lincolnshire coast, also in the streets, back gardens, docks and timber 
yards in Grimsby. 
224, CoTURNIX COMMUNIS, Bonnaterre. Quail. 
A summer visitor, and nesting irregularly in several localities, more 
particularly the wolds. In some years has been common, in others 
scarce, altogether it is not nearly so plentiful as was the case twenty- 
five years since. I once shot a quail in mid-winter during a snow-storm, 
scratching beneath a wheat stack. 
Order FULICARIA. Family RALLIDA. 
225. CREX PRATENSIS, Bechst. Corn-Crake. 
Common but irregular, being unaccountably scarce in some years. 
Arrives in May or late in April ; leaves in September, when it is generally 
distributed throughout the district. In 1887 one was shot on December 
6th—other cases also in mid-winter. 
226. PorZzANA MARUETTA (Leach). Spotted Crake. 
Resident and nesting, but very locally. Is more frequently met with 
in the autumn, and on several occasions has been killed against telegraph 
wires at night. 
227. PorzaNa PARVA (Scop.). Lvttle Crake. 
October 9th, 1869, one at Great Cotes |‘ Zool.,’ 1870, p. 1977]. 1836 
one killed at Scarborough |‘Hand. Yorks. Vert.,’ p. 64] from W. C. 
Williamson, ‘ P.Z.S.,’ 1836, p. 77]. 
228. PorzANA BAILLONI (Vieill.). Baillon’s Crake. 
One recorded by My. Bunker (M. 8.) killed near Goole [‘ Hand. Yorks. 
Vert.,’ p. 64]. In 1880, one Holmpton, Holderness, a male, in the Rey. 
H. H. Slater’s collection. 
229.’ RaLLus aquaticus, Linn. Water-Rail. 
Resident, local, nesting. Common in the autumn and winter, when 
considerable numbers arrive in September and October into the coast 
districts and spread inland. A return migration in March and early in 
April. Like the spotted crake, not uncommonly immolated on telegraph 
wires in the night, and frequently against lighthouses and lightships. 
