. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. RALLID^. 513. BAILLON'S CRAKE. PoRZANA baill6ni (VieiUot). This species (named after the distinguished naturalist of Abbeville), though rather more irregular in its visits to England than the Little Crake, is also generally observed in spring and autumn; but two nests with eggs, believed to belong to Baillon's Crake, were found in Cambridgeshire in June and August 1858, while two more were taken near Hickling in Norfolk in June and July 1866. There is no evidence that the bird is a resident, though an example is said to have been captured on som
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. RALLID^. 513. BAILLON'S CRAKE. PoRZANA baill6ni (VieiUot). This species (named after the distinguished naturalist of Abbeville), though rather more irregular in its visits to England than the Little Crake, is also generally observed in spring and autumn; but two nests with eggs, believed to belong to Baillon's Crake, were found in Cambridgeshire in June and August 1858, while two more were taken near Hickling in Norfolk in June and July 1866. There is no evidence that the bird is a resident, though an example is said to have been captured on some ice near Cambridge in January 1823. Besides Norfolk, in which about ten specimens have been obtained, Baillon's Crake has occurred in Suffolk, Derbyshire, Nottingham- shire, Hertfordshire, Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall, Yorkshire, Lanca- shire, the Isle of Man, and Cumberland. In Scotland one was recorded by Jardine from Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, in 1842; another (in the Sinclair collection at Thurso) was probably killed in Sutherland in 1841 ; one struck a telegraph wire in Renfrewshire in May 1893; and one is said to have been killed at Stranraer in 1891. In Ireland only two authenticated instances are known, both of them from the south. It is not surprising that Baillon's Crake should occasionally nest with us, for it breeds annually in some parts of Holland, and R R. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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