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procured on the 7th of July were also taken in the same 

 locality ; but of these, unfortunately, three were broken. 

 What became of the nest I cannot say ; but the two were 

 most likely constructed by the same pair of birds."* The 

 earliest account of the breeding of this Crake in England 

 is, however, that given by Mr. Sealy (Zool. p. 6329), who 

 describes the finding of two nests in Cambridgeshire, in 

 June and in August, 1858, and some further details are 

 given by Mr. F. Bond in Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain.' 



Proceeding northwards, the occurrences of Baillon's 

 Crake become rarer; nevertheless Mr. W. E. Clarke re- 

 cords (Yorkshire Verteb. p. 64) three examples from that 

 county ; and Capt. Hadfield mentions it as having visited 

 the Isle of Man. In Scotland, one is stated by Sir William 

 Jardine to have been killed near Lockerbie, Dumfries -shire ; 

 and Mr. R. Gray cites another in Caithness. In Ireland, one 

 is recorded by Thompson, as obtained near Youghal, on 30th 

 October, 1845 ; one has occurred near Kanturk, co. Cork ; 

 and a third near Waterford (Zool. 1882, p. 113). 



On the Continent its distribution appears to be somewhat 

 irregular, owing probably to insufficient information. In 

 certain districts of Holland it breeds in some numbers ; 

 also in many of the marshy parts of France ; in a few 

 localities in Switzerland ; somewhat capriciously in Ger- 

 many ; and in the Italian provinces of Lombardy, Venetia, 

 and Tuscany. The above countries are frequented from 

 spring to autumn, but in the Spanish Peninsula Baillon's 

 Crake is to a great extent resident, breeding in the marshes 

 of Andalucia and Valencia, where the Little Crake, so far as 

 is known at present, only occurs on migration. A regular 

 visitant to Hungary, the range of Baillon's Crake can be 

 traced to Greece, where it is but little known ; and to 

 Southern Ptussia as far as the Ural, although not included 

 by Bogdanow among the species of the Caucasus ; thence, 

 eastward, through Turkestan and Persia, to Gilgit, Kashmir, 

 Nepal, and India, especially the North-West Provinces. 

 Mr. Hume states that it is abundant near Simla up to an 



* Birds of Norfolk, ii. pp. 401 40.15. 



