106 



RALLID.fi. 



GRALLATORES. 



RALLIDJE. 



BAILLON'S CRAKE. 



Crex Baillonii. 



Crex Baillonii, Edition's Crake, SKLBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 182. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 219. 



Zapornia GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. ix. 



Gallinula Poule cTeau Baillon, TEMM. Man. cTOrnith. 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 Linriean 

 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, 

 to obtain a meal ; but, having wandered far from its native 



