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POEZANA TAKVA. 



(LITTLE CRAKE.) 



Rallus parvus, Scop. Ann. i. Hist. Nat. p. 126 (1769). 



Mallus mixtus, Lapeyr. Mamm. et Ois. de la Haute-Garonne, p. 38 (1799). 



Gallinula pusillus, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. ii. p. 340 (1803, nee Pall.). 



Gallinula pusilla, Bechst. Gemeinn. Naturg. Deutschl. iv. p. 484 (1809, nee Pall.). 



Gallinula minuta, Mont. Orn. Diet. Suppl. fol. 9 (1813, nee Pall.). 



Gallinula foljambei, Mont. Orn. Diet. Suppl. fol. bb (1813). 



Zapomia minuta, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 34 (1816, nee Pall.). 



Zaporina minuta, Forst. Synop. Cat. of Brit. Birds, p. 59 (1817). 



Rallus peyrousei, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxviii. p. 562 (1819). 



Crex pusilla, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 80 (1823, nee Pall.). 



Ortygometra olivacea, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. p. 226 (1824). 



Zapomia pusilla, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. p. i. p. 231 (1824, nee Pall.). 



Phasaridion, Kaup (Gallinula pusilla pygmcea), Natiirl. Syst. p. 173 (1829). 



Ortygometra pusilla, Bp. Comp. List, p. 53 (1838, nee Pall.). 



Ortygometra minuta, Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 68 (1840, nee Pall.). 



Porzana minuta, Bp. Ucc. Eur. p. 65 (1842, nee Pall.). 



Phalaridium pusillum, Meves, Journ. fur Orn. 1875, p. 433, nee Pall. 



Poule d'eaupoussin, French; Schiribilla, Italian; Gallotz-terz, Maltese; kleines Sumpfhuhn, 

 Sumpfschnerz, German ; Dvasrg-Sumphone, Danish ; Lilla Sumphona, Swedish. 



Figuroe notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Gralles, pi. 36; Kjeerb. Orn. Dan. taf. 38, and Suppl. pi. 18; Fritsch, Vog. 

 Eur. taf. 32. figs. 4, 5 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 238 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. 

 pi. 76. fig. 5; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 345; Eoux, Orn. Prov. pi. 331. 



6 ad. Porzana bailloni similis sed major, corpore supra magis olivaceo et minus albo guttato : tectricibus 

 alarum immaculatis : remige extimo in pogonio externo fusco immaculato : corpore subtiis sicut in 

 Porzana bailloni picturato, sed abdomine imo et subcaudalibus indistincte fasciatis : rostro viridi-flavo, 

 ad basin rubro : iride coceinea, : pedibus viridibus. 



5 mari dissimilis : corpore supra sicut in mare colorato sed pallidiore : capitis lateribus griseo-schistaceis : 

 mento et gula superiore albis : gutture, pectore et abdomine ochraceo-carneis : abdomine imo et sub- 

 caudalibus sicut in mare picturatis sed pallidioribus. 



Adult Male (Southern France, May). Resembles Porzana bailloni, but is larger, the upper parts are more 

 olivaceous and less spotted, these white spots being confined to the back, the "wing-coverts being 

 unspotted, and the black markings are more blurry ; first primary dark brown on both webs, and not 



