BAILLON'S CRAKE. 



GRALLATORE8. 



121 



RALLIDJE. 



BAILLON'S CRAKE. 



Crex Baillonii. 



Crex Baillonii, Baittoris Crake, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 182. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 219. 



Zapornia GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Gallimda Poule d'eau Baillon, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 692. 



ONE of the earliest notices of the occurrence of this bird 

 with which I am acquainted, is published in the second 

 volume of the Zoological Journal, page 279, on the exhi- 

 bition 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 upon 

 some ice at Melbourne, about nine miles south of Cam- 

 bridge, in January, 1823. " To this spot, originally fen 

 land, the poor bird had resorted, in an inclement season, 



