Allen's Gallinule Porphyrula alleni, a tropical African bird, has but once been obtained in Britain: off the Suffolk coast in January 1902. The species was not then admitted to the British and Irish list; there was some incredulity at the concept of a tropical species 'migrating' north into the European winter, while a reputed escape possibility was the official reason given for exclusion (British Or
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