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FV Lie A RLE. 



RALLID^. 



RALLID/E. 



POEZANA PAKYA (Scopoli*.) 



THE LITTLE CRAKE, 



OR OLIVACEOUS GALLINULE. 



Crex x>usiUa. 



The first example of this species made known in this 

 country was shot near Ashhurton in Devonshire, in 1809, 

 and was figured and described in Montagu's Supplement to 

 his Ornithological Dictionary, under the name of Little 

 Gallinule. It appears to be a female, but the sex was not 

 noted. The next specimen, recorded by Montagu, is Mr. 

 Foljambe's bird, obtained in the shop of a London poulterer, 

 in May, 1812, said to have been received from Norfolk : 

 this is also figured and described under the name of the 

 Olivaceous Gallinule in the Appendix to his Supplement, 



* liallus parvii.% Scopoli, Ann. i. Hist. Nat. p. 108 (1769). 



