1920.] Birds of the Canary Islands. 119 



Range. Baillon's Crake has an extensive l)reediiig- range 

 ill Europe and Asia, and is partially resident in Africa. The 

 northern birds migrate in winter to Africa. 



Porzana parva. Little Crake. 



Rallus parvus Scopoli, Ann. i. Hist. Nat. 17G9, p. 108 — 

 Type locality : Carniola. 



The Little Crake can only be considered a Rare Visitor to 

 the Archipelago. 



Cabrera obtained two in the spring at Lagnna (Catalogo, 

 p. 60), which are doubtless the same pair which Meade- 

 Waldo records having seen at Laguna (Ibis, 1889, p, 4, and 

 1893, p. 201). 



Meade-Waldo's statement (Ibis, 1890, p. 430) that " it 

 appears to be a pretty regular winter visitor to the ditches 

 round Laguna ^^ can hardly entitle it to a place amongst the 

 regular " Winter Visitors,'^ though it probably often escapes 

 detection. 



Hartert (from literature) notes (Nov. Zool. 1901, p. 306) 

 that "• the Little Crake is more or less regular in winter," 

 Avliich quite possibly is more correct than to term it a Rare 

 Visitor. As, however, I can only trace three specimens I have 

 scheduled it with the latter. 



The last record is one of my own, for in 1913 I identified 

 a Little Crake in the collection of Don Gonzalez y Gonzalez 

 in Arrecife, Lanzarote, which had been shot in that island 

 and the skin preserved (Ibis, 1914, p. 63). 



Range. The Little Crake breeds in Europe, parts of Asia 

 and north Africa. In winter it migrates south as far as 

 equatorial Africa and north-west India, passing through the 

 Mediterranean basin on migration. 



Crex crex. Corn Crake. 



Rallus crex Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 153 — Type 

 locality : Sweden. 



The records available can only point to the Land Rail 

 being an Occasional Visitor at the present day during the 

 spring and autumn migrations. 



