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RALLID.E, 



GRALLATORES. 



RALLID/E. 



BAILLON^S CRAKE. 



Crex Buillonii, Baillun''s Crake, Selby, Crit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 182. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 219. 



Zapornia ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. ix. 



GuUinida ,, Poule d'eau Baillon, Temm. Man. d'Ornilh. vol. ii. p. 692. 



One of the earliest notices of the occurrence of this bird 

 Avith which I am acquainted, is published in the second vo- 

 lume of the Zoological Journal, page 279, on the exhibition 

 of a specimen at the Zoological Club of the Linnean Society, 

 which belonged to Dr. Thackeray, the Provost of Kings's 

 College, Cambridge, and which was caught upon some ice at 

 Melbourne, about nine miles south of Cambridge, in January 

 1823. " To this spot, originally fen land, the poor bird 

 had resorted, in an inclement season, to obtain a meal ; but, 

 having wandered far from its native and more congenial lati- 



