LITTLE CRAKE. 



OLIVACEOUS CRAKE. LITTLE GALLINTJLE. DWARF RAIL. 



Crex pnsilla, SKLBT. JENYNS. 



Gailinula minnta, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



** Foljambei, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



" pusi/la, FLEMING. 



Znpornia pusilla., GOULD. 



Rallus pusil/us, LATHAM. 



Crex ? Pusilla Small little. 



THIS Crake is not uncommon in the southern parts of 

 Europe, for instance, in Italy, Germany, Turkey, Hungary, 

 and the sunny side of France, and also is obtained in 

 Holland. It has heen 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 

 1836, another in Yorkshire, near Scarborough; and one many 

 years ago was captured at Cantley, near I)oncaster, the seat 



