356 FULICARI^. 



Siberia (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 124). 

 Two examples have passed through my hands ; one of them, shot in 

 tlic presence of Captain Blakiston on the 12th of November, near 

 the mouth of the Iskari River on the north-west coast of Yezzo, is 

 obviously not quite adult ; the other, shot in December at Jasahai, 

 fifteen miles north of Nagasaki, after a gale of wind, appears to be 

 adult (Scebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 178). It is somewhat smaller than 

 the Western species, the bill is slightly longer and more slender, the 

 head is paler in colour, and the lesser wing-coverts are grey, like the 

 greater and median wing-coverts, instead of being mottled with 

 brownish buff and black, like the back. 



The breeding-range of the Eastern Great Bustard probably extends 

 across Eastern Siberia to Japan ; but examples from the latter 

 locality have not yet been procured in summer. 



360. CREX PUSILLA. 

 (PALLAS'S CRAKE.) 



liaUus pusillus, Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 700 (1776). 



Pallas's Crake is a small bird (wing from carpal joint about 

 3^ inches). The outer web of the first primary is white; the under 

 tail-coverts are white, barred with black ; and it has no spots on the 

 sides of the throat or breast. 



Figures ; Hume and Marshall, Game-Birds of India, Burmah, and 

 Ceylon, ii. pi. 35. 



Pallas's Crake is a resident in all the Japanese Islands. Captain 

 Blakiston sent mc an example from Yezzo (Scebohm, Ibis, 1884, 

 p. 35) ; there arc two examples in the Pryer collection from Yoko- 

 hama; and INlr. Ringer has sent an exami)le to the Norwich Museum 

 obtained at Nagasaki (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 

 1882, p. 123). 



Pallas's Crake has been most unaccountably confused with Bail- 

 Ion's Crake, but the dilTerencc between the two species has been 

 recently pointed out (Ogilvie Grant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1890, 

 vol. v. p. 80). 



The breeding-range of Baillon's Crake extends from the British 

 Islands across Europe to Africa and Madagascar. Neither species is 

 known to occur in Asia Minor, Persia, or South-west Siberia ; but 



