. A history of British birds . ^^ -^ .^i^~^ VOL. III. 154 RA LL1DM. \\^yS. PORZANA BAILLONI (Vieillot*). BAILLONS CRAKE. Crex Baillonii. One of the earliest notices of the occurrence of this birdis published in the Zoological Journal, vol. ii. page 279, onthe exhibition of a specimen at the Zoological Club of theLinnean Society, which belonged to Dr. Thackeray, theProvost of Kings College, Cambridge, and which wascaught alive upon some ice at Melbourne, about nine milessouth of Cambridge, in January, 1823. In the sameJournal, vol. iii. p. 493, Mr. G. T. Fox, of Durham,

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. A history of British birds . ^^ -^ .^i^~^ VOL. III. 154 RA LL1DM. \\^yS. PORZANA BAILLONI (Vieillot*). BAILLONS CRAKE. Crex Baillonii. One of the earliest notices of the occurrence of this birdis published in the Zoological Journal, vol. ii. page 279, onthe exhibition of a specimen at the Zoological Club of theLinnean Society, which belonged to Dr. Thackeray, theProvost of Kings College, Cambridge, and which wascaught alive upon some ice at Melbourne, about nine milessouth of Cambridge, in January, 1823. In the sameJournal, vol. iii. p. 493, Mr. G. T. Fox, of Durham, hasrecorded another specimen of this bird, which was killedwithin three miles of Derby, in November, 1821. The nextrecord is of its occurrence near Beccles, and also at Nactonin Suffolk (Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 48). In September, 1840, * lialhis haiUoni, Yieillof, Nouv. Diet, xxviii. p. 548 (1819). baillons crake. 165 Mr. Francis Edwards, of Brislingtoii, near Bristol, sent up,for the use of this work, an adult female of this species killedon some marshy ground near Weston-saper-mare ; and twomo

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