AG ZAPORNIA INTERMEDIA. 
ZAPORNIA INTERMEDIA (Hermann). 
BAILLON’S CRAKE. 
§ 3105. Ziwo.—From Dr. Pitman, 14 March, 1846. 
§ 3106. Four.—vValkenswaard, North Brabant, 1851. From 
Mr. A. Bots. 
[Only one of these was ever actually in Mr. Wolley’s possession. TI let 
Mr. Green, the dealer, have two of them in 1852, and Mr. Wolley seeing 
them in his shop, and recognizing my marks upon them, immediately bought 
one of them. The other I lost sight of for nearly forty years, when in 1891 
Mr. Leopold Field, into whose possession it had come, recognizing my marks 
upon it, most kindly restored it to me—an additional proof, if that were 
needed, of the advantage of inscribing eggs in ink. The remaining two eggs 
never left the collection of my brother and myself. All four were received 
by us in 1851, direct from Arnold Bots, of Valkenswaard, who sent with them 
the skin of the bird, which is now in the Cambridge Museum. | 
§ 3107. Zwo.—Klincorken, River Dommel, North Brabant, 
1857. From Mr. John Baker, 1858. 
These are extreme varieties which I saw (2 March, 1858) in a lot of 
from ten to twenty eggs of the same bird left in Mr. Baker’s hands. 
One is a rather large specimen with unusually distinct markings on a 
light ground, but not (as at first sight might appear) faded. The other 
is a very dwarf specimen, but otherwise ordinary in appearance. 
Baker says he has several times had such dwarf eggs of Baillon’s 
Crake. He has met with no trace of the Little Crake in Holland. 
He says they were taken at a place called Klincorken, about twenty 
miles from Valkenswaard, on the Dommel, which is the river flowing 
from that place to Bois-le-Duc, where it joins the Meuse. They 
were sent to England after he had left the country, where he 
supposes they were taken in July, 1857. 
[These eggs measure 1°15 by ‘87 and ‘91 by ‘62 inch respectively. } 
[§ 3108. Zwo.—East Norfolk?, 6 June, 1858. From Mr. 
John Baker. 
One of these eggs was given to me in November, 1858, by Mr. Baker, the 
other, bought of him about the same time by Mr. Sealy, was given to me by the 
