172 KALLID^ 



Note. " A specimen of the Carolina Crake, P. Carolina, 

 shot near Newbury, Berks, was exhibited at the meeting 

 of the Zoological Society, February 14th 1865, by Professor 

 Newton, who remarked upon the powers of endurance in 

 their flight of various members of the family Rallidse, 

 and upon the capture of this species on one occasion in 

 Greenland. In the ' Field ' of December 4th 1897, Mr. 

 C. Clive Bayley records that two came on board the yacht 

 "Vampa" in about latitude 20 N. and longitude 55 W. ; 

 one of them taking food freely and reaching England alive. 

 The adult may be distinguished from the European bird by 

 its black face" (Saunders). 



LITTLE CRAKE. Porzana parva (Scopoli). 



Coloured Figures. Gould, ' Birds of Great Britain,' vol. iv, pi. 

 90 ; Dresser, ' Birds of Europe,' vol. vii, pi. 498 ; Lilford, 

 ' Coloured Figures,' vol. iv, pis. 57 and 58. 



The Little Crake is a rare visitor in spring and autumn. 

 The earliest British specimen on record is a bird obtained 

 in Sussex in March, 1791 (Markwick, ' Catalogue of Sussex 

 Birds,' p. 9). Several have been obtained since in the 

 same county. The species has been most often recorded 

 from Norfolk. 



In November, 1898, a Little Crake was procured in 

 Shropshire, seven miles north of Shrewsbury. This occur- 

 rence is of special interest, for it appears to be the first 

 authenticated record "for any of the western counties 

 north of Somerset" (H. E. Forrest, 'Zoologist,' 1900, 

 p. 280). Specimens have also been recorded from the 

 following counties, chiefly maritime : Cumberland, Lan- 

 cashire, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, 

 Oxfordshire, Middlesex, Kent, Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, 

 Devon, and Cornwall 



In Scotland one was procured in March, 1852, and is 

 now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney (Saunders). 



Only two examples have been taken in Ireland. One, 

 a male from Balbriggan, co. Dublin, shot March lltb, 

 1854. This bird is preserved in the collection of the late 

 Canon Tristram, acquired by the Liverpool Museum. The 



