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1921 .] Birds of Alderney. 
Podiceps auritus. The Slavonian Grebe. 
A regular winter visitor in small numbers. This, as well 
as the next species, is usually met with either off the 
Platte Saline beach or in Longy Bay. 
Podiceps cristatus. The Great Crested Grebe. 
A regular winter visitor in small numbers, but perhaps 
slightly less numerous than the last species. 
Rallus aquations. The Water-Bail. 
A by no means uncommon winter visitor. I cannot find 
that it breeds here, nor have I met with it during the 
breeding-season. L. tells me that, when out shooting, 
he has frequently seen this bird sitting on a fence, or the 
branch of a tree, watching the dog working in the ditch 
below. This is, of course, a rather usual habit of the Moor¬ 
hen, but I have not before heard of the Water-Bail 
behaving thus. 
Porzana porzana. The Spotted Crake. 
L. shot one here on the 10th of November, 1891, and 
has it in his collection. 
Porzana pusilla intermedia. Baillon’s Crake. 
L. shot one in the autumn of 1891, the same year 
in which he shot the Spotted Crake, but he has not the 
exact date. The bird is in his collection. 
Crex crex. The Land-Bail. 
A common summer visitor and also a bird of passage, but 
as such is more frequently met with in autumn than in spring. 
L. says of this bird :—From the end of August to October 
large flights arrive with* north-west and north-east winds. 
Mr. B. G. May shot fifty on one day in September 1886. 
My largest bag in one day was twenty-seven, but of late 
years they do not come in such large numbers. When a 
flight arrives it never remains over the second night.” 
The record of these large flights in September is very 
interesting. Mr. Cecil Smith makes no mention of these 
