BAILLON’S CRAKE 197 
now in the Ramsey Museum, was recorded by Mr. Kermode 
in his list of 1888, but in that of 1901 inadvertently 
appeared under the heading of Baillon’s Crake. 
In October 1892 I saw at Mr. Adams’s a specimen of 
the Spotted Crake which had been picked up dead at 
Onchan, killed, Mr. Adams thought, against the telegraph 
wires in the village (Mr. Kermode says in the preceding 
month, September). 
Though rare in Ireland, the Spotted Crake has occurred 
both in Down and Antrim. It has often occurred in 
Galloway, and has bred in Dumfriesshire, and is a scarce 
migrant, chiefly in autumn and winter, in the opposite 
English districts. It is believed to be of regular autumnal 
occurrence in Shetland, and there is statement of its obser- 
vation in Orkney, but it is not recorded from the Outer 
Hebrides. It has been found in the south and east of 
England and in some Scottish localities. 
(Re record of the Little Crake (Porzana parva, Scop.) in 
Zool., 1847, see under next species. It has once occurred 
in Ireland, and in a few instances in north-western England.) 
PORZANA BAILLONT (Vieillot). BAILLON’S 
CRAKE. 
‘A bird recorded as a Little Crake by Captain W. H. 
Hadfield (Zool., p. 5280) as shot by him near Ramsey, Isle 
of Man, in 1847, was subsequently referred by him to 
Baillon’s Crake’ (Zool., Second Series, p. 3272, under date 
of 7th September 1872). (See Yarrell, 4th ed., iii. p. 150, 
note, and p. 156.) 
The original record of Captain Hadfield is as follows :— 
