118 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the [Ibis, 



Don Gonzalez y Gonzalez, who had ohtained it near Arrecife. 

 This specimen is now in the British Museum (Ibis, 1914, 

 p. 63). 



There are few districts in the Canary Islands suited to this 

 Crake, but the most favourable locality is certainly the 

 ditches of the Laguna plains, Avhile the " Charco '' of Mas- 

 l)al()mas in Gran Canaiia and the Rio de las Palmas in 

 Fuerteventura may also be occasionally visited. 



Range. The Spotted Crake breeds in Europe southwards 

 to the Mediterranean, and apparently in north Africa from 

 Morocco to Tunisia. It is said to winter in India and 

 Africa, but I am uncertain how far south it extends in the 

 latter continent. 



Porzana pusilla intermedia. Baillon^s Crake. 

 Kallus i/itermedms Hermann, Obs. Zool. i. 1801, p. 198 — 

 Type locality : Strasbourg. 



This Crake is an Occasional Visitor in winter to the island 

 of Tenerife, where it has been obtained on a number of 

 occasions on the Laguna plains. 



It would appear to have been a fairly regular visitor to 

 Tenerife about the years 1-887-1891, for Meade-Waldo says 

 of it that " it occurs during most winters at Laguna^' (Ibis, 

 1893, p. 201). 



Cabrera had one in his collection from Laguna (Catalogo, 

 p. CO}, but it appears to have been overlooked of recent 

 years. 



Von Thanner has only once recorded Baillon's Crake 

 in his list of migrants, but it must be remembered that 

 this observer has his headquarters at Vilaflor, which is 

 many miles from Laguna and a district ill-suited to Hails. 

 Von Thanner remarks (Orn, Jahrb. 1912, p. 227) that a 

 female example of '^ Rallus pypnceus^' was brought to him 

 on the 4th of September, 1911, from Los Christianos in 

 the i,-land of Tenerife. This can only refer to Baillon's 

 Crake — as Gal/mula (not Rallus) pygm^a Jirehm = Rallus 

 intermedius llevmann = Porza?ia pusilla intermedia (Herm.). 



