LITTLE CRAKE. 397 
Oulton Broad, near Lowestoft, in the adjoining county. 
One, if not more, of these local specimens, is most 
probably in Mr. Lombe’s fine collection,* although, 
owing to the absence of any memoranda to that effect, 
this cannot now be ascertained with certainty. 
Mr. Hunt in his “ List” of Norfolk Birds, published 
in Stacy’s history of the county, in 1829, has also the 
following entries with reference to our smallest species 
of rails :— 
* Rallus minuta, Little gallinule. Captain Custance, 
of Catton, has a specimen of this recently-discovered 
species [referring probably to Montagu] in his posses- 
sion, shot by Mr. Girling in the neighbourhood of 
Scottow.” 
“Rallus Foljambu, Olivaceous gallinule. This species, 
originally described by Montagu, has been recently 
killed at Bradestone.” 
Unfortunately the more ambitious work by the same 
author on “British Ornithology,” of which portions were 
published in 1815 and 1822, was never completed, but 
amongst, the plates, to which the letterpress is wanting, 
I find coloured representations of Rallus minutus and 
Rallus foljambu, which, in all probability, were drawn 
from the two last-mentioned Norfolk specimens. The 
first of these unquestionably represents an immature 
little crake, but the latter, from the distribution of 
the white spots over the back and wings, is far more 
characteristic of Baillon’s crake in its adult plumage. 
Again in the “Magazine of Natural History” for 
* A specimen killed on the banks of the Thames, near Chelsea, 
in 1812, was purchased at the sale of Mr. Plasted’s birds, by the 
late Mr. Leadbeater, and was believed by Yarrell to have passed 
subsequently into the possession of Mr. Lombe. This, I have no 
doubt, is correct, as many of the rarest birds in Mr. Lombe’s 
collection were supplied by Leadbeater; by whom also the entire 
series were originally mounted and arranged. 
