396 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
CREX PUSILLA (Gmelin) 
LITTLE CRAKE. 
The first example of the Little or Olivaceous crake 
known to have been procured in this county (only one 
other having been previously noticed as killed in Eng- 
land),* is stated in the Appendix to the supplementary 
volume of Montagu’s “Ornithological Dictionary,” to 
have been discovered by Mr. Foljambe “in a poulterer’s 
shop,t early in the month of May, 1812, together with 
some other valuable birds, which had recently been 
received from the fens of Norfolk.’’ The same authority, 
also, remarks, “it is probable that the Foljambean gal- 
linule may hereafter be found to breed in the fens of the 
eastern parts of Great Britain.” 
In the late Mr. Lombe’s MS. notes, supplied me 
by his daughter, Mrs. E. P. Clarke, of Wymondham, I 
find the record of “a little gallinule’”’ shot at Buckenham 
Ferry, in August, 1827; of another, immature, at 
Neatishead, in March, 1828; and of a third in 1830, on 
* Under the name of little gallinule (Gallinula minuta) Mon- 
tagu, in the Supplement to his “ Ornithological Dictionary,” figures 
and describes a small crake shot near Ashburton, in Devonshire, in 
the year 1809, as new to the British list, but as the first Norfolk bird, 
as above stated, was subsequently described by the same author [see 
Appendix to the Supplement] as a new species, under the name of 
Olivaceous gallinule (Gallinula foljambii), he was evidently, at that 
time under the impression that they were distinct. The Devon- 
shire specimen forming part of Colonel Montagu’s collection, is still 
preserved amongst the “British Birds,” at the British Museum. 
This species, however, seems to have been first recognised and 
described by Pallas, in the Appendix to the third volume of his 
Travels, published in 1776, under the title of Rallus minutus, being 
the same specific name as was subsequently applied to it by 
Montagu when he, nearly forty years afterwards, discovered it 
in England, and redescribed it as new. 
+ In London according to Yarrell, but the locality is omitted 
by Montagu. . 
