398 BIEDS OF NOKFOLK. 



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 Saflron Walden. 



" Crex pusilla, little gallinule. Two shot by Mr. 

 Bichers, 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."f 



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 e 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. 



f 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. 



