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It is represented in eastern Asia by P. pusilla, winch 

 breeds in eastern Siberia, Japan, China, India, Tenasserim, 

 Afghanistan, and Baluchistan. This form appears to winter 

 in the southern parts of its breeding-range. 



Porzana parva. LITTLE CRAKE. 



Rallus parvus Scopoli, Ann. i. Hist.-Nat. 1769, p. 108 : 

 Carniola. 



Porzana parva (Scop.); B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 148; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. oil. 

 Zapornia parva Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. 1894, p. 89. 



Parva = small. 



Distribution in the British Islands. An Occasional Visitor. 

 More than forty examples have been recorded in England, 

 chiefly from the eastern and southern counties. It has been 

 procured twice in Scotland and twice in Ireland. 



General Distribution. The Little Crake breeds in Europe, 

 south-west and central Asia, and north Africa, from southern 

 Sweden and central Russia eastwards to Turkestan and the 

 Tian Shan ; southwards to south France, north Italy, Hun- 

 gary, Persia, and Afghanistan. It appears to be resident in 

 north Africa, in Algeria and Tunisia. In winter it visits 

 equatorial Africa and north-west India, passing through the 

 Mediterranean basin on migration. 



Genus CREX BerJistein, Orn. Taschenb. 1803, p. 336. 

 Type : C. crex (Linn.). 



Crex = Kpt?, a Rail, in classical Greek ; cf. Kpexta I strike so as to cause 

 a sound. 



Crex crex, CORN-CRAKE. 

 Rallus crex Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 153 : Sweden. 



Crex pratensis BecJist. ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 149 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 507. 

 Crex crex (Linn.); Sharps, Cat, Birds B. M. xxiii. 1894, p. 82. 



