BAILLON’S CRAKE, 
CREX BAILLONI (Vieill.). 
Rallus bailloni, Vieild. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. xxviii. 
p- 548 (1819). 
Crex pygmea, Nawm. ix. p. 567. 
Crex baillonii, Macg. iv. p. 539; Hewitson, 1. p. 377. 
Porzana bailloni, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 154; Dresser, vii. p. 275. 
Poule @eau Baillon, French ; Zwerg-Sumpfhuhn, German ; 
Polluela chica, Spanish. 
This is a rare and irregular visitor to our country, 
but has been known to breed on more than one occa- 
sion in our eastern counties, and it was within my 
recollection by no means uncommon in many parts of 
the Netherlands. I have met with Baillon’s Crake in 
the great marshes of Eastern Sicily, where it is common 
and breeds, and I also obtaimed it in Cyprus; but my 
principal acquaintance with this species was formed in 
the marshes of the lower Guadalyuivir, where we found 
it breeding in great abundance in May 1883. In 
general habits this Crake much resembles the better 
known Spotted Crake ; but it is decidedly more aquatic 
and less often to be met with in open marsh-lands than 
