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‘Little Crake (Crev pusilla) in the Isle of Man. Extract 
from note-book :— | | 
‘“Tsle of Man, 1847.—When looking for Snipes at the 
Dog-mill swamp, about two miles from Ramsey, a Crake 
was shot by me, which, from its wavering flight and some- 
what similar size, I at first took for a Jack Snipe, but it 
proved to be a Crake, the smallest I had ever seen, being 
considerably less than the Jack Snipe.” Although I am 
aware that the Little Crake has occasionally been met with 
in the southern counties, I am not so sure that it has been 
found before so far north as the Isle of Man.—Henry W. 
Hadfield, High Cliff, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, September 8, 
1856.’ 
The Greeba specimen mentioned by Mr. Kermode (Y.L.J/,, 
iil. p. 537) is, as stated under the last heading, a Spotted 
Crake. alt 
There are two records from Ireland, and a few from north- 
western England (one in 1886). It has occurred principally 
in southern England. 
CREX PRATENSIS, Bechstein. LAND-RAIL. 
CorncrakE. Manx, *Fean or Yeean-raip (M. 8. D.); Eean- 
raip (Cr.)=the bird (which cries) ‘ raip.’ 
Though the Corncrake is still a common and regular 
summer visitant in Man, I am disposed to agree with 
Mr. Kermode that it has diminished in numbers. Here, 
as elsewhere, it is doubtless year by year subject to varia- 
tion in abundance, caused, in part at least, by the degree of 
peril experienced during the nesting season and in migra- 
tion, for which latter it seems singularly unfit. It is 
