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ZAPORNIA INTERMEDIA.—Z. PUSILI.A. 
[§ 3113. One.—Potter-Heigham, Norfolk, 9 June, 1866.. 
From Mr, W. M. Crowfoot. 
Mr. Crowfoot wrote to me on the 12th July :—“On the 9th of last month 
a labouring man discovered at Potter-Heigham, in Norfolk, a nest of 
Baillon’s Crake containing four eggs. These he sold to a lad named George 
Smith, a shoe-binder at Yarmouth, who had been in the habit of collecting local 
ecgs for some years, and whom I had employed to collect Reeves’ eggs for me. 
I first saw them afew days after he had blown them. He was, of course, 
quite ignorant as to what they were; but thought they must be very rare 
as he had never seen any like them before. After considerable bargaining and 
some expense I managed to secure three of them—the fourth being still in 
Smith’s possession. If you would like a British specimen of this rare egg, 
I shall be happy to send you one of those which I have.” Naturally, I wrote 
accepting this kind offer, and on the 24th July Mr. Crowfoot wrote again :— 
“The following meagre particulars are all that I have at present been able to 
learn respecting these Cralie’s eggs. ‘They were found during the first week 
in June at Potter-Heigham, near Hickling in Norfolk. The old birds were 
observed, but, of course, not recognized. The nest, which contained four eggs, 
was placed in a patch of reeds growing in water about a foot in depth. It 
was very small and loosely made, composed of dry rushes. My informant, 
G. Smith of Yarmouth, visited the place for the purpose of securing the 
nest; but found that the reeds had been cut and the nest spoilt. These 
particulars I received by letter.” Again, on the 12th September, Mr. Crowfoot 
wrote :—“I have just sent off to you one of the Baillon’s Crake’s eggs taken 
at Potter-Heigham this year, which I hope you will receive safely. The only 
additional fact which I have been able to ascertain respecting these eggs is the 
exact day on which the nest was found, viz. the 9th of June.” This nest was 
recorded in ‘ The Zoologist ’ for 1866 (pp. 389 and 442). ] 
ZAPORNIA PUSILLA (Pallas). 
[§ 3114. Zwo.—Siberia. From Dr. Dybowski, through M. 
Jules Verreaux, 1873. 
These were sent, the one under the name of “ Ortygometra pygmea” 
(= Zapornia parva), the other as “ Rallus bailloni,” of which the R. pusillus of 
Pallas is the Eastern representative. It would seem from Dr. Jaczanowski's 
latest work (Faune Orn. Sib. Orient. ii. p. 997) that the former of these 
species does not occur in the part of Asia where Dr. Dybowski’s collections 
were made, and hence that both these specimens must be referred to the 
latter. An examination of the passages in the former writings of these two 
naturalists, to which reference is given in Dr. Taczanowski’s volume just cited, 
shews that considerable confusion had existed in their minds as to the species ; 
but it would seem that the egg figured to illustrate their remarks in the 
‘Journal fiir Ornithologie’ for 1873 (pp. 106, 107, tab. iii. fig. 32) must be 
that of the present form, of which HH. Dybowski and Parrex had already in 
the same journal for 1868 (p. 388) stated that they had found eggs. | 
