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PORZANA BAILLONI (Vieillot*). 



BAILLON'S CRAKE. 



Crex Baillonii. 



One of the earliest notices of the occurrence of this bird 

 is published in the Zoological Journal, vol. ii. page 279, on 

 the exhibition of a specimen at the Zoological Club of the 

 Linnean Society, which belonged to Dr. Thackeray, the 

 Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and which was 

 caught alive upon some ice at Melbourne, about nine miles 

 south of Cambridge, in January, 1823. In the same 

 Journal, vol. iii. p. 493, Mr. G. T. Fox, of Durham, has 

 recorded another specimen of this bird, which was killed 

 within three miles of Derby, in November, 1821. The next 

 record is of its occurrence near Beccles, and also at Nacton 

 in Suffolk (Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 48). In September, 1840, 



* lialhis haiUoni, Yieillof, Nouv. Diet, xxviii. p. 548 (1819). 



