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987. Porzana bailloni (Yieill.). 
Lord Lilford shot an adult female Baillon’s Crake near 
Larnaca on April the 19th, 1875. Glaszner sent Madarasz 
a male taken at the same place on November the 8th, 1901. 
I had a bird of tbis species brought to me alive on April 
the 4th, 1909, which had been captured near Pera, about ten 
miles from Nicosia. From April the 1st, 1910, onwards, 
Messrs. Baxendale and Horsbrugli obtained several at the 
Famagusta marshes. Possibly it is a resident, but I am 
disposed to regard it as a visitor on the migrations and 
in winter. 
989 PoHZANA PARVA (Scop.). 
Guillemard observed the Little Crake near Larnaca in early 
February 1887, and shot a specimen near the same place on 
April the 7th in the following year. Messrs. Baxendale and 
Horsbrugli found it quite abundant at the Famagusta lakes 
at the end of March and beginning of April, 1910, and 
obtained over a dozen specimens. It is a visitor at the 
seasons of migration and perhaps in winter. 
993. Crex pratensis Bechst. 
The Corn-Crake or Land-Kail was included in Sibthorp’s 
list, but was not met with by Lord Lilford. Schrader refers 
to it as a spring and autumn migrant. Guillemard heard it 
once on March the 6th, 1888, and Glaszner sent a female to 
Madarasz taken on August the 27th, 1901, near Larnaca. 
Mr. G. F. Wilson records an example shot near Nicosia in 
mid-September, 1908; I flushed one w r hen shooting nearPapho 
close to the sea on September the 21st ; Mr. G. F. Wilson 
himself shot one at Nicosia on October the 10th and 
Mr. Baxendale another at Papho on October the 19th—all 
in 1908. 
I have never heard its cry in Cyprus, and I believe that it 
is only a spring and autumn migrant or an occasional visitor. 
998. Gallinula chloropus (Linn.). 
The Water-hen or Moor-hen is another species which was 
recognised by Sibthorp. 
Lord Lilford called it <f common in all suitable localities,” 
but I can only hnd one record by Guillemard, namely where 
