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BAILLON’S CRAKE. 
PORZANA BAILLONI (Vieillot). 
This species (named after the distinguished naturalist of Abbeville), 
though rather more irregular in its visits to England than the Little 
Crake, is also generally observed in spring and autumn; but two 
nests with eggs, believed to belong to Baillon’s Crake, were found 
in Cambridgeshire in June and August 1858, while two more were 
taken near Hickling in Norfolk in June and July 1866. There 
is no evidence that the bird is a resident, though an example is said 
to have been captured on some ice near Cambridge in January 1823. 
Besides Norfolk, in which about ten specimens have been obtained, 
Baillon’s Crake has occurred in Suffolk, Derbyshire, Nottingham- 
shire, Hertfordshire, Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall, Yorkshire, Lanca- 
shire, the Isle of Man, and Cumberland. In Scotland one was 
recorded by Jardine from Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, in 1842; 
another (in the Sinclair collection at Thurso) was probably killed in 
Sutheriand in 1841; one struck a telegraph wire in Renfrewshire 
in May 1893; and one is said to have been killed at Stranraer in 
1891. In Ireland only two authenticated instances are known, 
both of them from the south. 
It is not surprising that Baillon’s Crake should occasionally nest 
with us, for it breeds annually in some parts of Holland, and 
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