192 THE BIRDS OF SUSSEX. 



the Adur^ near Slioreliam, in October 1855. The second was 

 obtained in the following remarkable manner : — Two men, 

 one only having a gim^ were hunting for Moorhens, on the 

 14 til of April 1869, in some reedy brick-pits near Eastbourne, 

 with a spaniel. The man without a gun staying behind, the 

 dog routed out a Little Crake, which flew towards him. He 

 threw his " wide-awake " hat at it, whereon the bird followed 

 it down and ran into it, and he took it alive. I soon after pur- 

 chased it of Mr. Bates, the Naturalist, of Eastbourne. It is 

 recorded in Yarrell's B. B, (vol. iii. p. 149) . A fourth example 

 is mentioned by Mr. Knox as in the possession of the landlord 

 of the Dolphin Hotel, Shoreham, who shot it in that neigh- 

 bourhood (O. R. 240) . A fifth was picked up, in an exhausted 

 state, near Seaford in March 1848, and brought to Mr. 

 Ellman (Zoologist, p. 2148). A sixth was brought for pre- 

 servation to Mr. Kent, a bird-stuffer at Hastings, in April 

 1859, p. 6537 ; and Mr. Dutton mentions a seventh, caught 

 in Pevensey Marsh, in 1862, and seen by him in the flesh 

 (Zoologist, p. 8330). 



BAILLON'8 CRAKE. 



Porzana hailloni. 



The only example of this rare Crake which has occurred in 

 Sussex is thus recorded in the ' Zoologist ^ (p. 4159, s. s.) by 

 Captain Clark Kennedy, while staying at Eastbourne : — " An 

 adult female was captured in this neighbourhood, on the sixth 

 of August 1874, in a very exhausted and emaciated condition. 

 It contained in its ovary eggs about the size of pins' heads.'' 



