LITTLE CRAKE. 
OLIVACEOUS CRAKE. LITTLE GALLINULE. DWARF RATL. 
Crex pusilla, SELBY. JENYNS. 
Galinula minuta, Moxtracu. Berwick. 
$s Foljambei, Montasv. Brwick. 
3: pusilla, FLEMING, 
Zuporniu pusilla, GouLp. 
Fallus pusillus, LarHaM. 
Cnet isetedecee Pusilla—Small—little, 
Tuis Crake is not uncommon in the southern parts of 
Eurcpe, for instance, in Italy, Germany, Turkey, Hungary, 
and the sunny side of France, and also is obtained in 
Holland. It has been found also in Asia, namely, in Persia 
and Japan, according to M. Temminck. 
In this country it is a rare species. The first recorded 
specimen occurred in Yorkshire, May the 6th., 1807, on the 
‘Banks of the Yore,’ a locality since made of some celebrity 
in the ‘Poet’s Corner’ of the ‘Yorkshire Gazette.’ In the 
same year one, in the autumn, at Adwick, by Manchester. 
The next near Ashburton, in Devonshire, in the year 1809, 
and was figured and described by Colonel Montagu. Another 
was obtained in Norfolk, in May, 1812, and again, another 
in the same year on the banks of the Thames, near Chelsea. 
In March, 1826, one, a female, was caught at Barnwell, 
near Cambridge. In 1834, one was shot near Yarmouth, 
Norfolk, and another, a male, at Heigham, in that county, 
March 30th., 1847. In October, 1835, one taken on the 
bank of the Adur, at Beeding, near Shoreham, Sussex. In 
1886, another in Yorkshire, near Scarborough; and one many 
years ago was captured at Cantley, near Doncaster, the seat 
