LITTLE CRAKE, 
CREX PUSILLA (Bechst.). 
Gallinula pusillus, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. ii. p. 840 (1803). 
Crex pusilla, Nawm. ix. p. 547; Macg. iv. p. 541. 
Porzana parva, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 148; Dresser, vii. p. 283. 
Poule deau poussin, French; Kleines Sumpfhuhn, German ; 
Polluela chica, Spanish. 
This Crake is a rare visitor to our country, and, 
although it appears to have been more frequently met 
with than Baillon’s Crake, I find no record of its having 
nested in England, as that species undoubtedly has. 
I have no acquaintance with this bird, whose habits in 
all probability closely resemble those of its congeners ; 
but it is said to be more strictly aquatic than any other 
of the true Crake-family. 
The figures in the Plate are taken from an adult and 
an immature bird sent to me from the great marshes in 
the neighbourhood of Valencia, where this Crake is 
abundant. 
