Porzana bailloni, Vieillot. 



Vernacular Names.- QMiii, Nepal. ] 



AILLON'S Crake occurs, at one season or another, 

 in suitable localities in almost every portion of the 

 mainland of the Indian Empire, except in Tenasse- 

 rim, south of Tavoy, and in Sind. Even in Sind, 

 where the Little Crake is the common species, one 

 specimen was killed near the Manchur Lake by Mr. 

 Blanford. 



The present species is also found in Ceylon and the Anda- 

 mans. 



Outside our limits, Baillon's Crake is found in Afghanistan 

 and Beluchistan, in Turkestan, and eastwards throughout China, 

 in Dauria, South-East Siberia and Japan* 



We do not know of its occurrence (though stragglers will pro- 

 bably turn up in some of these) in the Malay Peninsula, Siam, 

 Cochin China, the Nicobars, or any part of the Malay 

 Archipelago, except at Bintulu on the west coast of Borneo. 

 There seems to be no authentic record of it from Persia (though 

 it may occur there), Arabia, Asia Minor, or Palestine ; but it is 

 found throughout Southern and Central Europe (straggling 

 rarely to Great Britain), the Islands of the Mediterranean, and 

 in a great many localities in Africa from the north to the extreme 

 south, as also in Madeira and Madagascar. 



To A great extent this species is a migrant in India, but it is 

 so retiring in its habits, and has as yet been so little watched 

 or attended to, that we are quite unable to give any satisfac- 

 tory details of its migration. 



Certainly this species is, as a rule, more common in the 

 plains of India during the cold season than at any other period. 

 Certainly, also, it is rarely, if ever, met with in the Hima- 

 layas (throughout which, from Kashmir to Sikhim, it is found 

 up to elevations of 6,000 feet or possibly somewhat more), 



* Its occurrence in the Philippines rests on no sufficient authority. 



