PORZANA. 303 



General Distribution. The Carolina Crake breeds in 

 temperate North America, from the southern Mackenzie 

 and central British Columbia to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 and south to southern California and New Jersey. In 

 winter it is found in California and South Carolina, through- 

 out the West Indies, and in Central and South America, to 

 Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It is accidental 

 in Greenland and the Bermudas. 



Porzana pusilla. (ExtnUimital.) 



Porzana pusilla intermedia. BAILLON'S 

 CRAKE. 



Rallus intermedius Hermann, Obs. Zool. i. 1804, p. 198: 

 Strasbourg. 



Porzana bailloni (Vieill} ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 148; 



Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 513. 

 Porzana intermedia (Herm.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. 



1894, p. 103. 

 Intermedia = intermediate. 



Distribution in the British Islands. An Occasional Visitor, 

 generally in spring and autumn, but sometimes in summer 

 and winter ; it has been known to breed in Cambridgeshire, 

 June and August 1858, and in Norfolk, June and July 1866. 

 It has occurred in most counties of England, south of 

 Cumberland and Yorkshire, but most commonly in Norfolk. 

 It has also been recorded about five times from Scotland, 

 including Sutherland and Caithness, and twice from the 

 south of Ireland. 



General Distribution. Baillon's Crake breeds in central 

 and southern Europe, south-west Asia, Africa, and Mada- 

 gascar, from Holland, East Prussia, and Russia at about 

 56 N. latitude, southwards to the Iberian Peninsula, north 

 Italy, Hungary, and the Black sea, and eastwards to Persia ; 

 also in Africa, where it is partially resident, in Algeria, 

 possibly in Egypt, and in Damaraland. In winter it visits 

 Africa, ranging southwards to Cape Colony and Madagascar. 



