APPENDIX. 



Baillon's Ckake. Poezana Baillonii, {Vieillot.) 

 Crex Baillonii, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, III., 106. 

 Porzana pygmcea, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, Part YI. 

 ,, Baillonii, Degland et Gerbe, Ornith. Eiirop., II., 258. 



Since the catalogue was priuted I have obtained, through the 

 kindness of my friend, Mr. Thomas Thompson, a specimen of 

 Baillon's Crake, Avhich was shot by the side of the Derwent, 

 near Swalwell, on or about the 12th of July, 1874. 



From the state of the plumage, and the time of year when it 

 was shot, in all probability it was breeding in the neighbour- 

 hood, and must consequently rank as a spring - and - autumn 

 migrant. 



I believe this to be the lirst notice of the occurrence of this 

 rare species in our district, but, from its skulking habits, it may 

 hitherto have been unobserved. 



In Vol. II., p. 145, Bewick mentions that a specimen of the 

 Little Gallinule " was caught by the dogs of our friend, the late 

 Major H. F. Gibson, in a boggy place covered with reeds and 

 rushes, near the Tyne." It is not possible now to ascertain 

 which species of Porzana is referred to in the above quotation, 

 and in the absence of more recently recorded observations, the 

 occurrence of the Little Gallinule in our district must remain 

 doubtful. ■ 



