398 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
1834 (p. 53) the late Mr. Hoy, in a notice of “some rare 
species of birds observed or killed in the county of 
Suffolk and adjoining borders of Essex, during the 
winter months of 1832 and 1833,” briefly records the 
fact of “a little gallinule, Gallinula minuta,” having 
been shot near Yarmouth. Of this bird, however, and 
of no less than three others procured in the same year, 
I find the following important particulars in the MS. 
notes sent me by Mr. Joseph Clarke, of Saffron Walden. 
““Crex pusilla, little gallinule. Two shot by Mr. 
Richers, near Yarmouth, March, 1833, in the possession 
of Mr. Hoy, of Stoke Nayland.* One was stuffed by 
Harvey, of Yarmouth, and sold for fifty shillings. 
Captain Glasspoole killed two on Horsey Broad, in 
1833.”’+ 
From this last date until the year 1847, I can 
find no further notice of this species as occurring in 
Norfolk, but on the 30th of March in that year an 
adult male in very beautiful plumage was killed “on 
the ‘ronds’ or wet marshes adjoining the large sheet of 
water at Heigham Sounds,” as recorded in the “ Zoolo- 
gist” (p. 1777) by Mr. W. F. W. Bird, of London, the 
owner of the specimen. The same is also briefly noticed 
in that journal by Messrs. Gurney and Fisher (p. 1702). 
The following are the only examples I have been 
able to authenticate within the last twelve years. A 
male, in the possession of Mr. W. H. Scott, of Aylsham, 
was shot by Mr. J. Dickens, at Dilham Fen, on 
the 26th of April, 1852. This bird, which Mr. Scott 
very kindly sent me for examination, was just com- 
* In Dr. Bree’s description of the late Mr. Hoy’s collection, at 
Stoke Nayland (“ Field,’ 1867, vol. xxx.), there is no mention of 
specimens either of the little or of Baillon’s crake. 
+ A specimen of this crake, included in Mr, Stephen Miller’s 
sale Catalogue in 1853, was, I have little doubt, one of those already 
mentioned. 
