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and is considered to be an adult male. About the same 

 time Mr. Plasted, of Chelsea, obtained a similar bird, shot 

 on the banks of the Thames near that place, and which, after 

 passing into the possession of Mr. Leadbeater, was trans- 

 ferred to the collection of the late Mr. Lombe, who resided 

 near Norwich. The next record, attributed in former Editions 

 to this species, namely, that by Mr. W. Fothergill, in Tr. 

 Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 583, and in Whitaker's Richmondshire, i. 

 p. 416 (1823), is considered by Mr. W. E. Clarke (Hbk. of 

 Yorkshire Vertebrates, p. 64) to apply in all probability to 

 Baillon's Crake. In March, 1826, a female of this species 

 was caught at Barnwell, near Cambridge, which was in the 

 collection of Dr. Thackeray, the Provost of King's College; 

 and the figure of the bird in the front of the illustration 

 here given, as also the description, were taken from this bird, 

 which was most kindly lent me for my use in this work. 



In the Magazine of Natural History for the year 1829, 

 page 275, it is mentioned that Mr. James Hall caught a 

 specimen of the Olivaceous Gallinule alive in a drain in 

 Ardwick meadows, near Manchester, in the autumn of 1807. 

 In the same work, but for the year 1834, page 53, the late 

 Mr. Hoy has recorded that a Little Gallinule was shot near 

 Yarmouth. Mr. W. Borrer sent me notice that a Little 

 Crake was taken alive on the banks of the Adur, at Beeding 

 chalk-pit, near Shoreham, in October, 1835 ; and Mr. W. 

 C. Williamson recorded (P. Z. S. 1836, p. 77) that an 

 Olivaceous Gallinule had been killed near Scarborough. 



Its occurrence has also been recorded at Seaford in March, 

 1848 (Zool. p. 2148) ; near Hastings, in April, 1859 (Zool. 

 p. 6527) ; near Pevensey, in March, 1862 (Zool. p. 8330) ; 

 in Somersetshire, in October, 1870 (Zool. s.s. p. 2386)* ; in 

 Cornwall (Zool. 1878, p. 214) ; near Fordinbridge in Hamp- 

 shire ; in Cambridgeshire (Zool. p. 9118) f; in Yorkshire, on 

 three occasions (W. E. Clarke, Yorkshire Verteb. p. 64) ; 

 and in Oxfordshire, by Messrs. Aplin (B. of Banbury, p. 22). 



* This subsequently proved to be Baillon's Crake : cf. Zool. s.s. p. 4334. 

 t The sternum of this individual was described in the above volume, 

 pp. 9285-9289, by Mr. W. W. Boulton. 



